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=

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• 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.