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Ancient Art 3500- 1600 BCE

Ancient Art 3500- 1600 BCE. Ancient People and Structures. But first…. Mesolithic Era 8000- 4000 BCE. End of the Ice Age Warmer climate Expansion of forest People began to live around bodies of water Fishing Agricultural No longer hunting and gathering, but farming.

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Ancient Art 3500- 1600 BCE

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  1. Ancient Art 3500- 1600 BCE Ancient People and Structures

  2. But first…

  3. Mesolithic Era 8000- 4000 BCE End of the Ice Age Warmer climate Expansion of forest People began to live around bodies of water Fishing Agricultural No longer hunting and gathering, but farming

  4. Saharan rock paintingTassili, AlgeriaC. 6,000 BCE Herding Cattle Jelly Fish?

  5. Australia “The Dreaming” are a collection of stories about the adventures of supernatural beings in the time before people dream time, the mythical past and plane of exsitence, that helps to interperet the present Dream Time is acessable through the performance of certain rituals, such as creating rock paintings, accompanied by singing and chanting (Art Across Time, p.39). passed down by mimi, mythical spirits, holders of all truth and thought to have taught the earliest people to hunt “The Dreaming episodes are always tied to specific places on the landscape; they tell the creation stories of the people who live in that area and, by retelling the stories, the group asserts its claim to the teritory” (Non-Western Art, a Brief Guide, p. 146-146). The AustrailianAboriginies pass down these stories through families using oral accounts as well as visual imagery. Images are sacred and passed down from family member to family member living in a specific region

  6. Examples of Austrian Aboriginal Art The Mimi Xray-Style

  7. Do they still create these images?

  8. Yes! http://cliffordpossum.com/

  9. Malta Temple Ggantija (meaning “tower of the giants”)

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