The life of prehistoric humans
Archaeological illustrations
Produced in 2023
Client: ICArEHB
This set of six digital illustrations highlight different aspects of the life of prehistoric humans. The habits, culture, environment and dangers that these ancestors of ours lived, as indicated by the researchers at ICArEHB, are featured in each of these pieces.
The piece with the most backstory is arguably that of the meeting between the interloper Homo Sapiens and the Neanderthal people. The greatest challenge in this illustration was to portray the uncertainty on the expression of the individuals of both groups. Can you tell what each is thinking?
Clip Studio Paint digital art.
A group of hunter gatherers, rests and go about their activities, by a body of water, surrounded by plentiful and threatening fauna.
A comparison between two stages of climate in the same landscape - one lush and fertile, and the same place turned into a frozen snowy tundra.
Food gathering in the present day vs the hunter gatherer period.
A small Neolithic family tends to their resources: the man tills the earth, while the woman and child feed the cattle.
The tense meeting between the Homo Sapien interlopers, and the settled Neanderthal. This clash happened over the period of thousands of years, and ended with the extinction of the latter.
Lifestyle comparison between Paleolithic hunter gatherers and settled Neolithic farmers and herders.