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Tools
- Middle Paleolithic Period
- Stone and/or bones
- Earliest tools ever used
- Make early spears
- Skin animals
- Put holes in bones to strengthen wood
- Used in ceramics to make clay (texture) |
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Flutes
- Middle Paleolithic Period
- Carved bones
- Bird bones w/ holes in them
- Used in religious ceremonies
- Around 100,000 BCE
- Marks on the flutes to decorate |
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Lion Man (Shaman)
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Mammoth Ivory
- Found in Germany
- 35,000 BCE
- Earliest work found
- Carved out of tusks
- Shaman |
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- Someone that went through horrible experience while young
o Trained to become religious figure
o Ability to connect to spirit world through rituals of chanting and drugs
o One animal to relate to in spirit world because of experience in childhood
o Modern day doctor (medicines, spiritual, physical fix)
o Also an artist and poet |
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Bison
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Reindeer Antler
- 4 1/8 inches long
- 30,000 BCE
- Turning around to clean fur
- Able to show how humans visualize this animal |
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Spear Thrower (Atlatl)
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Bone
- 15,000 BCE
- Can throw harder, farther, extend your arm |
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Goddess of Hohle Fels
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- First belief system
- Last part of the name is where it was discovered
- Mammoth ivory
- 2 ½ inches high
- Venus: Goddess of love
- Goddess figures not Venus figures
- No face is important |
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Goddess of Willendorf
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Limestone
- 4 3/8 inches tall
- First belief system
- Large feature again
- Power of a woman
- Able to give birth
- Focuses on feature of fertility
- Pigment left on figure is always red
- Red: blood (life giving color)
- Image of earth goddess (giving/ sustaining) |
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8. Goddess of Dolni Vestonice
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Ceramic
- 4 ½ inches
- First belief system
- No face
- Large breasts
- Big stomach
- Made out of clay |
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Goddess of Laussel
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Relief sculpture (not complete sculpture)
- Holding something in her hand
- Face in profile (wearing head dress)
- Holding horn in right hand and touching with left hand
- Horn was used to start hunt (debated)
o Similar to shape of crescent moon
o 13 marks on horn/ 13 moon cycles |
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El Castillo Cave
- Upper Paleolithic Period
- Meaning “The castle cave”
- Put hands on the wall and spit paint around their hands to mark their hands |
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12. Chavet cave
- horses, rhinos
- be able to visualize and put into art
- painting/ engraving
- part of image female parts, another part is leg of a shaman |
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13. Lascaux Cave
- first cave discovered in modern times
- candle holder (animal fat grass, weed, light and have a candle)
- red color bottom, yellow on top
- animals floating or on middle line
- back and bellies are curved
- spears flying towards animals
- all foot prints are male/ young ( age of 13 puberty)
- took boys going through puberty when ready through cave and the boys throw spears at the images of bulls, which is supposed to their first hunt |
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living over 50,000 years
- Making traditional art
- Dream Time: Mythological plane of existence that they believe in/ a mindset which explains the order of the universe
- In dream time the past, present, and future exist as one
- Ancestors ordered the universe and known as dreamers
- The art deal with art from Dream Time
- Do not have writing / their artwork carries out their time
- Dot painting for rituals/ symbol on ground with dots or different colored sand
- Dot painting can be a symbolic language/ if you understand how it works you can get the story out of it
- People are represented as if underground looking up at the shape of their bodies |
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1. Mimis
• Very skinny
• Always drawn in the same way
• Represent a spirit
• Live in rocks and caves
• Have to be careful because the strong wind will rip them apart (their skin)
• They taught people how to hunt, how to use fire, and how to make art
• If you ever enter their cave and eat their food or have sex with one, you will become a Mimi |
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2. Wandjina
• Wandjina- large heads, body smaller, big eyes, with feathers/rays coming out of heads
• Ancestral creators/ created the earth/ sea/ and human race
• Ceremonies are done for
• If you offend them it can bring on too much rain or floods
• Lily Karedada is the artist
• Painted on caves or rock walls/ may include fish |
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3. Kangaroo and Namarrgon (Lightening Man)
• X ray painting- sometimes they will paint them to see organs/bones/ see through their bodies
• Don’t know if they were painted together
• Lightening man carries sphere
• Kangaroo with X Ray style/ Backbone with muscles of the leg |
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5. Namarrgon
- Joshua Bangarr
- Dot paintings |
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6. Bush Tucker Dreaming
- Aboriginal Art
-Australia Art
- Farren Furber Jampitjinpa |
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7. Man’s love story
• Grubs are part of the Aborigine diet |
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8. Unknown Animal
• 5 inches tall
• 2300 BCE
• Looks to be portable
• Don’t know meaning or how it was used
• Looks like a male animal/ bison |
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9. Rock Art at Tassili N' Ajjer
• 4500-2000 BCE
• Rock wall protected from elements is a good place to put art
• People/ considered to be hunting scene
• Running across the field chasing the animals with spheres
• Banana shape- used to represent hooks
• A lot of movement by the people
• Cows that people own with a pin to keep them
• Stick figures to more realistic
• Ritual dance or activity
• Outfits and masks to wear during the rituals |
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10. Rock Art at Drakensberg
• Animals and people represented on the cliff wall
• Realistic or stick figures
• Large animal with horns on bottom – eland: most important food animal
• Shaman wearing the ritual outfits
• Rituals aimed at the animal |
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11. Kerma Ware Beaker
• Bands of different colors
• Orange brown/ white an black
• Ancient Egyptian tombs
• Maybe contact of trading
• Considered to be desirable in acient Egyptian tombs |
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12. Head
• Triangle eye on people
• Elaborate hair styles
• Holes in eyes, nose, and mouth are techinal thing/ the holes make it easier to be fired to prevent cracking to expand |
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13. Figure
• Charms/ good luck statues
• To protect against crops failing or infertility failing |
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14. Human Figures
• Garbage pits
• Dead people would go in there as well
• Wealthy people are leaders were buried in own graves
• Poor people were buried in mass burials
• These figures would get buried too |
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15. Dancers
• 20,000 BCE
• Rock wall painting
• That represents dancers
• Two rows of people or a form of circle
• Sense of movement or rhythm
• Shelter of Bhimbetka
• Painted there until 1000 BC
• People are more fleshed out |
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16. Priest/King
• 1950 BCE
• 7 inches high
• Naturalistic
• There beard has lines
• Weird half close eyes
• A Priest representing in a trance with eyes half closed
• Elaborate rope with abstract designs
• Unknown role/ represented someone with a high role
• Ear or beard not naturalistic but know what they are |
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17. Torso
• More Naturalistic
• Pretty accurate
• Missing head and arms
• Good representation of human body during time period |
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18. Yahkshi
• 5 ½ feet tall
• Female earth spirit
• Represented in three major religions in India today: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jane
• Representing fertility
• Wears skirt and girdle
• Nude from waist up
• A lot of jewelry/ a lot of decorations on body
• Holding whisk to wave around getting flies off of her |
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19. Standing Buddha
• Year 150
• New religion of Buddhism
• Base has lotus flowers- represents enlightening of the spirit and mind |
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20. Bi
• Represent the sky
• Common image in Chinese art
• Flat disk with hole in the middle
• Meant to be buried with people
• For people of high standing in society
• If family can afford it, it will go with the body being buried
• Made out of Jade |
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22. Vases from Yangshao Culture
• Used in Funeral practices
• Swirls and lines
• No real similarities between them
• Almost like funeral/ death part are more important than the living
• The death ones are more decorated than the everyday ones |
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23. Guang
• Wine containers
• Placed in the tomb and used in the afterlife
• Animals used for the shape of container
• Detail carved in the body |
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24. Army of Shi Huangdi
• Defeated a lot of people in China and united them
• Elaborate burial when he died
• Tomb filled with many statues
• The figures standing at attention
• Very first/ top level of the grave of the emperor
• Could be other levels with treasure or body of the emperor
• War Chariots
• Originally the figures were painted
• The bodies are very similar, but then faces are different to represent individual soldiers
• Efforts to stop grave robbers
• Originally holding metal weapons
• The statues their to protect him in the afterlife
• The writings tell us there’s more to the tomb |
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25. Burial Suit
• Burial suit of Liu Shang
• Made out of Jade and gold wire
• A bunch of little jade rectangles with wires placed around the suit
• Powers of restoration
• Armor used in the afterlife
• Do things to ensure people get to the afterlife |
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26. Flying Horse
• Best known example of Chinese art
• Flying Horse- running on a flying bird
• Hoof resting on a bird |
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27. Plain of Jars
• Collection of giant jars
• 500 BCE- 500 common era
• 1000 of large containers
• Range of size from 3 feet to 10 feet high
• Originally all had lids
• Lids made out of wood (did not last long)
• They were made to hold human remains (human bones, teeth, pottery, beans)
• Containers for the dead
• Could have been cremated or bones put in there
• Larger than a human |
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- Symbols on rock walls
- Fish, whales, different animals
- Weird similarity of prehistoric art
- Don’t know why so important to make animal art
- Important for rituals or food to survive another day
- Mating scenes of different animals
- Figures that don’t look like animals/ could be shaman |
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28. Vase from Jomon Period
• Very decorated
• Used for cooking/ everyday pots
• Used ropes to press into wet clay to form patterns
• Ridges at top might represent fire |
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29. Rock paintings
• Big rock with hole in it
• Rock shelters
• More than 30,000 images created on the rick shelters
• Geometric designs and animals
• Ritual and hunting scenes
• Beings to be supernatural
• Shaman
• Mother and baby animal |
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30. Pedra Pintada
• Meaning- painted rock
• Natural formation
• More images painted all over it
• 11,000 BCE |
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31. Cueva De Las Manos
• Meaning- representation of hands
• Put hand in paint or spit paint around hand to make hand print
• Another Shaman |
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32. Nazca Drawings
• Mysterious place on earth
• The lines and images made on actual ground in the desert
• One of the driest place on earth
• Made by wiping away the gravel (surface)
• Below the gravel is a different colored rock
• A lot of lime in the ground which gives it solidifies the moisture in the air
• Made at many different times
• Lines or images that go through earlier images
• Straight lines or animals (Humming Bird)
• Humming Bird 310 feet long
• Monkey
• Space Man (representation of a shaman)
• First discovered from airplanes
• Placement of stars
• Lines may actually have to do with pointing to different areas where water springs are |
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33. Feline Head Bottle
• Ritual activities
• Transformative piece
• Winged dragon or serpent
• Turn sideways turns to head of a cat |
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34. Whistling Bottle
• Panther
• Two spouts – one where liquid comes out the air comes in and the holes play a whistling sound |
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35. Colossal Heads
• Creating a group of very large heads
• So far found 17 of them
• Brightly painted
• They represent different rulers |
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36. Bison
• Mammoth carved into piece of Bison bone
• 12,000 BCE |
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37. Petroglyphs
• Earliest petroglyphs in North America
• Suns or Stars
• Nevada |
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38. Petroglyphs
• Hunters with bows and arrows
• Figures with horns on head (shaman)
• Corn paintings
• Geometric designs
• People putting initials on it |
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39. Solstice Snake
• Made on a rock in Moab desert in Utah
• 20 feet long
• Carved on cliff
• At sunrise the sun comes up and hits the area in the rocks and creates image of arrowhead that goes through head of snake |
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| Middle Paleolithic Period |
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- Tools
- Mobility Art
- Cave Art |
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