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Pre-historic – paleolithic , mesolithic , neolithic. Cave discoveries. 1876 – Altamira 1994 – Chauvet – contemporary with venus of willendorf ( but not the same place) http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = EtogFCAjKQs.
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Cave discoveries • 1876 – Altamira • 1994 – Chauvet – contemporary with venus of willendorf ( but not the same place) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtogFCAjKQs
Waterworn pebble resembling human face, Makapansgat, South Africa. 3,000,000 BCE
Woman (or Venus) from Willendorf30,000 – 25,000 BC – Limestone - 4.5 “
Woman’s head from Brassempouy, France22,000 BCE - Ivory - 1.5”
Man from Brno (Czech Republic)30,000 – 25,000 BCE – Ivory - 8”
Spotted horses and negative hand imprintsPerch-Merle, Lot, Fr – 22,000 BCE – 11’2’ long
Rhinoscerous, wounded man, and disemboweled bisonLascaus, Fr 15000-13000 BCE
Mother Goddess from Laussel, Dordogne, France22,000 – 19,000 BCE – stone - 18.5”
Mesolithic • Ice caps melt = new geography and climate change • Agriculture and domesticated (even dogs) • The Mediteranian Area becomes important
Head from Jericho, Jordan7000 – 6000 BCE – human skull, colored plaster and shell
Statuettes from Tell Asmar, Iraq2750 – 2650 – Gypsum – 23” – 28”
Sound box of a harb, Ur2685 BCE – Wood with gold, lapis lazuli, and shell inlay – 17”
Victory Stele of Naramsin2300 -2200 BCE – Pink sandstone – 6’ 8”
Egypt – ca 3000bce • Nile – life giving - trade, transportation, rural community • Less concerned with the temporal transitory world. Interested in eternal present.
Relationship between Body and Spirit • Ka – accompanied human in life and death • Akh – effective personality of person – left the body to dwell in the heavens after death • Ba – ghost that could move back and forth from dead body
Rahotep and Nofret, Medum2580 BCE – Painted limestone – 3’ 11”
Entrance to tomb of Mereuka, Saqqara, Egypt2400 BCE – painted limestone
New Kingdom • Wealthy and expansion west and east • No pyramids – instead rock cut tombs
Hatshepsut with offering jars – Red granite, 8 ½’ – 1470 BCE
Ostracon with drawing of a tumbler, Turin1180 BCE – limestone – 7”
Banquet, from tomb of Netamun, Thebes1400 BCE – Painted stucco –
Tutankhamen – 1320 BCE – gold with inlays of enamel and precious stone