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3300 BC| c. 8000 BC–c. 2700 BC | Europe [tools] | The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age begins in western Europe. It is characterized by the use of microliths (very small stone tools mounted on a shaft), chipped stone tools, and bone, antler, and wooden tools. Important inventions include the barbed fish-hook, harpoon, woven basket, clay cooking pot, and the comb. Some examples of these tools have been found at Star Carr in Yorkshire, England. | | c. 3300 BC | Egypt [painting] | The thin flat stones called palettes, used in Egypt for grinding malachite for eye-painting, develop into significant works of art. Some are inscribed with early pictographic and post-pictographic writing, and others with scenes of intercity warfare. They also show a Sumerian influence, as does an ivory knife handle of the period which pictures ‘the master of the beasts’, a man or god flanked by tamed lions.The most famous palette depicts King Menes, founder of the 1st dynasty of kings in Egypt, defeating the lord of the Delta Land (the Nile delta area of lower Egypt). |
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