The Humanistic Tradition Introduction. Paleolithic Culture (ca. 6 million--10,000 B.C.E.)
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The Humanistic Tradition
Introduction
•Paleolithic Culture (ca. 6 million--10,000 B.C.E.)
A key issue:
•Creation or evolution?
• Hominids: near human or proto-human
• Homo habilis: tool-making human
• Homo erectus: upright human
• Homo sapiens: symbol-making (e.g. burial rites)
http://www.answers.com/topic/hominid
hominid
http://www.wsu.edu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/timeline.html
Evolution?
http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/funhouse/pics/evolve2.jpg
www.keyvan1.com/ ecard/show.asp?catid=8
•Just kidding!!
•The Ice Age: (ca. 3 million--10,000 B.C.E.)
Food for Thought
• What constitute art in antiquity?
• What were the functions of art in the ancient world?
Lascaux caves, Dordogne, France
http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Earth/OldStarCharts.html
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/index4.html
Lascaux caves, Dordogne, France
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/page3.html
Pech-Merle caves, Lot, France
http://almez.pntic.mec.es/~jmac0005/Bach_Arte/Teoria/Fotos/20.jpg
Venus of Willendorf, Austria
http://www.angelsandearthlythings.com/d-84.html
The Venus of Laussel, Laussel, France
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
http://www.gvhs.muhsd.k12.ca.us/Academic_Programs/Visual_Arts/Teachers/Bolton/images/stonehenge.jpg
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
http://webpages.charter.net/rodpowell/images/Stonehenge.jpg
•Neolithic Culture
(ca. 8000-4000 B.C.E.)
•Major factor: the rise of agriculture
•What changes allowed the transition from nomadic to sedentary societies?
•Birth of Civilization (1)
--Birth of City: rural → urban/commercial
irrigation system
--Example:
Sumer in Mesopotamia
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/ralimage/map2meso.jpg
Ancient Mesopotamia
•Birth of Civilization (2)
--Birth of writing:
pictograph
--Example:
Cuneiform: Sumer
Hieroglyph: Egypt
Cuneiform → “wedge” form
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Games/cuneiformorigin.gif
http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/cuneiform_tablet_writing_close_black.gif
hieros = holy, glyphs = carving
http://www.khm.de/mg/grundkurse/textverarbeitung/texte/Egypt_Hieroglyphe2.jpg
http://www.themage.net/Egyptians/hieroglyph%20stone.JPG
The Rosetta Stone
http://www.bgst.edu.sg/realia/o17.JPG
Discovery of the Rosetta Stone
• “The Rosetta Stone, which provided the key to deciphering the writings of Ancient Egypt, was discovered near the town of Rosetta (now Rashid), located in the Nile Delta about 40 miles northeast of Alexandria, by a Frenchman, Pierre Bouchard, on 15 July 1799. Captain Bouchard, an engineer officer in Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, was supervising the reconstruction of an old fort . . . .” http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/egypt/egypt.htm
hieroglyphs
Demotic: simplified hieroglyphs
Greek
http://www-helix.inrialpes.fr/IMG/jpg/correspondance.jpg
British Museum, London
http://www.mike-reed.com/images/Travel%20Journal/England/080%20-%20British%20Museum%20-%20London,%20England%20-%20Rosetta%20Stone.JPG
•Birth of Civilization (3)
--Advances in metallurgy:
more durable tools & weapons (than stones & bones)
--Example: bronze casting
Myth• 1. Myths are grounded in sensual
evidence, therefore rich in visual imagery.
• 2. Myths are closely related to morality, rituals, and religious beliefs.
• 3. Similarities of earlier myths: “the genesis of first life forms from water”
The Flood MythSome resources:
• http://history-world.org/floods.htm
• http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
• http://www.uh.edu/hti/cu/2000/v05/05.htm
•The End