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Assignments for next week (I also sent this out in an e-mail)
• Week 2 T Aug 31 Art of the Ancient Near East 1Stokstad 26-39
Th Sept 2 Art of the Ancient Near East 2Stokstad 39-47
Prehistoric Art
Prehistory
-Before written history
The Stone Age-Paleolithic-Mesolithic-Neolithic
Homo Erectus
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
South Africa
Paleolithic carvings-function-material
iconography
-“Woman of Willendorf”, 24,000
BCE, limestone-fertility
Woman from Dolní Vestonice. 23,000 BCE. 4 1/4
1 7/10”.
Woman from Dolmni Vestonice23000 BCE
Franco-Catabrian TriangleLascauxChauvet
Chauvet Cave
Chauvet Cave
-Discovered in 1994-Wallpainting with Horses, Rhinos, and Aurochs-30,000-28,000 BCE
-Lascaux Cave
Lascaux Cave-Hall of the Bulls, 15,000 BCE
-Composite Pose-when the painting knows how he should painting the pose, but does it differently so its very clear to the viewer. Instead of painting what you see, you paint what you know is there.
• Stokstad 1-9
-Bird-Headed man with Bison. From Lascaux
-Narrative
-Animals are more important than humans in cave paintings
PS:c., ca. = Latin “circa”= “around”BP= before presentBCE=before common eraCE= common era
Mesolithic
• -Neolithic Period “Neolithic Revolution”– Domestication of plants, animals, etc.
Permanent Settlements=
• -
• Gov’t/admin
• -Legal system
• -Military system
• -Religion
• -Writing/Admin
• -Specialization of crafts
• -Intro of metal working.
-Catalhoyuk, Anatolia (central Turkey) 7400-6200 BCE
Çatalhöyük, Turkey. 7400–6200 BCE.
-Stonehenge, England ca. 2750-1500 BCE
-Megalithic (big rock), dolmen (cromlech)
Gold Face Mask. Neolithic, 3800 BCE.
Gold Scepters. 3800 BCE.