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Prehistoricart 100822133600 Phpapp01
Prehistoricart 100822133600 Phpapp01
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Characteristics
Images of animals dominate
with black outlines
realistically represented
Images Of humans
stick figures
little detail
Handprints
negative prints
left hand
15,000-13,000 BCE, Dordogne, France
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml
Paint is made of natural products
Charcoal, iron ore, plants bound with animal fat
650 paintings
Cows, bulls, horses, and deer
Figures are overlapping
Negative handprints: signatures?
Caves were not dwellings
Prehistoric people lived migratory lives following
herds of animals
Paintings placed deep inside the cave
Used to ensure a successful hunt?
Ancestral animal worship?
Shamanism
A religion based on the idea that forces of nature
can be controlled by a highly regarded religious
figure called a shaman
Neo (Greek) = New
Lith (Greek) = Stone
Neolithic = New Stone Age
8,000 BCE 3,000 BCE in the Near East
4,000 BCE 2,000 BCE in Europe
Cultivated land
Raised livestock
Live in organized
settlements
Created occupations =
division of labor
Built the first homes
Shelters were huts built with animal bones
Places of worship were built to last!
Menhir = large individual stone placed on
end alone or in rows
Megalith = Menhirs cut into rectangles used
for construction
by adam.holmquist
Post-and-lintel architecture =
the most basic
Post = two uprights
Lintel = horizontal on top
Cromlech = A circle of megaliths with lintels
placed on top
Structures were aligned to important
dates: solstices, equinoxes, and lunar.
The most well known cromlech?
Stonehenge, c. 2100 BCE,
Wilshire, England