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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

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Waterworn pebble resembling human face, Makapansgat, South Africa. 3,000,000 BCE

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Woman (or Venus) from Willendorf 30,000 – 25,000 BC – Limestone - 4.5 “

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Woman’s head from Brassempouy, France22,000 BCE - Ivory - 1.5”

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Man from Brno (Czech Republic)30,000 – 25,000 BCE – Ivory - 8”

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Spotted horses and negative hand imprintsPerch-Merle, Lot, Fr – 22,000 BCE – 11’2’ long

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Rhinoscerous, wounded man, and disemboweled bisonLascaus, Fr 15000-13000 BCE

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Mother Goddess from Laussel, Dordogne, France22,000 – 19,000 BCE – stone - 18.5”

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Mesolithic

• Ice caps melt = new geography and climate change

• Agriculture and domesticated (even dogs)• The Mediteranian Area becomes important

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Group of figures8000 BC – engraving on rock - Sicily

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Head from Jericho, Jordan7000 – 6000 BCE – human skull, colored plaster and shell

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Dancing Hunter, Turkey5800 BCE

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Man from Cernavoda, Romania4000 – 3500 BCE – Clay – 4.5”

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Early civilzation

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Vase from Urka, Iraq3500 – 3000 BCE – Alabaster – 3’

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Female Head from Urka, Iraq3500 – 3000 BCE – marble – 8”

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Statuettes from Tell Asmar, Iraq2750 – 2650 – Gypsum – 23” – 28”

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Sound box of a harb, Ur2685 BCE – Wood with gold, lapis lazuli, and shell inlay – 17”

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Head of an Akkadian ruler, Iraq2300 – 2200 – Bronze – 12”

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Victory Stele of Naramsin2300 -2200 BCE – Pink sandstone – 6’ 8”

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Stele of Hammurabi, Iran1760 BCE – Basalt – 7’ 4”

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Male torse, Harappa2300 – 1750 BCE – limestone – 3.5”

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Egypt – ca 3000bce

• Nile – life giving - trade, transportation, rural community

• Less concerned with the temporal transitory world. Interested in eternal present.

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Palette of Narmer, Hierakonpolis3200 BCE – Slate – 25”

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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

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Rahotep and Nofret, Medum2580 BCE – Painted limestone – 3’ 11”

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Mycerinus and his queen, Giza2600 BCE – Grey Wacke – 4’ 8”

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Egyptian Canon

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Entrance to tomb of Mereuka, Saqqara, Egypt2400 BCE – painted limestone

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Tomb of Ti – Hippopotamus hunt

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Tomb of Ti – going to the river with cattle

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Scribe, Saqqara2600 BCE – Painted Limestone – 21”

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New Kingdom

• Wealthy and expansion west and east• No pyramids – instead rock cut tombs

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Senmut with Princess Nefrua – 1470 - granite

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Hatshepsut with offering jars – Red granite, 8 ½’ – 1470 BCE

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Ostracon with drawing of a tumbler, Turin1180 BCE – limestone – 7”

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Banquet, from tomb of Netamun, Thebes1400 BCE – Painted stucco –

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Akhenaten, Karnak1375 BCE – sandstone – 13’

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Nefertiti1360 BCE – Painted Limestone – 19”

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Tutankhamen – 1320 BCE – gold with inlays of enamel and precious stone

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Temple of Ramesses II, Abu Simbel1257 BCE – 65’

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Atlantid

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Mentuemhet – 650 BCE - granite

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Assyria

• Dominant power in W. Asia, ruthlesss, iron weapons, perpetual warfare

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Lamassu, Khorsabad720 BCE – Limestone – 13’ 10”

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Lion Released and Killed, Nineveh650 BCE – limestone

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Man with lion cub, Khorsabad720 BCE – Limestone – 15’ 5”

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The Americas

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Colossal monolithic head, Tenochtitlan400 BCE – basalt – 5’ 10”

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Raimondi Stele – Peru – 1st millenium Bce – Diorite – 6’

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Wrestler, S maria Uxpanapan400 BCE – basalt – 26”

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Mantle from Paracas, Peru200 BCE – wool


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