Object as history tells stories about the past by starting with a particular object. Our lives are spent interacting with the physical world, building and using objects to shape our environments and everyday experiences. We say often overlook them, but even the most everyday things – a plate, a bottle, a pen – have their own unique historical contexts. Objects are thus windows into the past. They shape our occupations, habits, and traditions. They document past events and serve as physical reminders of the thoughts, values, and experiences of people long gone.

Today in class we separated the words “Object” and “History”. Objects are tools, they’re small turning points in the history which have a historical value. An object shouldn’t be mistaken as an artefact, all artefacts are objects but all objects aren’t artifacts. History can referred to as a story, it’s a discovery of something, an origin, it’a an event that happened in the past. 

We talked about how a small object is of great historical importance like how the creation of a wheel had a drastic change and was such a big historical movement, at that time no one could think of how this wheel will be such a huge step in history and how it will help everyone to progress even further. We talked about a few objects and artefacts that were of great historical importance, Ma’am also showed us a few historical drawings and paintings on the net, they were of a bull, we talked about what was the reason behind these paintings, it was obviously a way to communicate with each other because language was still not introduced at that time, so they would communicate with the help of art. Art was their way to communicate with each other.

Ma’am introduced the word Visual Culture to us. It is an act of seeing. It is a part of our daily lives that uses images as a means of communication.

Ma.am talked about the first objects to have been made by people. We did an exercise related to the objects that have a historical value. Ma’am told us to find tools of the Neolitic, Paleolitic and Charcolitic age. 

• Paleolithic Age– Wheel, Blades, Axe, Arrows and Spearheads, Adzes.
• Neolithic Age– Stone tools, Hammer Stones, Nets.
• Chalcolithic Age– The tools were mostly produced out of copper. Such as knives, fishing hooks, swords, rods, pins.