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18 Cards in this Set

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What?
Where?
Significance?
What: Woman from Willendorf
Who:
Where: Willendorf, Austria
When: Paleolithic
Significance: Symbol of fertility
Provides insight into culture
one of the oldest statues to survive
What? Where? When? Significance?
What: Hall of Bulls - Lascaux Cave Paintings
Who: Cave painters
Where: France
When: Paleolithic
Significance: one of the earliest examples of human visual communication
What? Where? When? Significance?
What: Bird-Headed Man With Bison - Lascaux Cave
Who: Cave painters
Where: France
When: Paleolithic
Significance: life-like bison
earliest human depicted visually
What? Where? When? Significance?
What: Stonehenge
Who:
Where: England
When: neolithic
Significance: post and lintel.
blue stones traveled from Wales.
sun rises over heel stone at summer solstice.
What, Where, When, Significance???
What: Cernavoda Woman and Man
Who:
Where: Romania
When: Neolithic
Significance: expressive depiction of people
What, where, when, significance??
Lion-Human, from
Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany. C.
30,000-26,000 bce. Mammothe ivory,
height 11 5/8
What, When, Where, Significance?
Pebble resembling a human face. Makaspansgat, South Africa. ca. 3,000,000BCE. Jasperite, 2 3/8 inches
What, When, Where, Significance?
Apollo II Cave Charcoal on stone, Namibia, 23,000 BCE
Portable objects
Species uncertain
Animals- bison,mammoth,ibex,horse
Humans infrequently, men almost never.
Strict Profile
What, when, where, significance?
Human with Feline Head
from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
ca. 30,000-28,000 B.C.E.
mammoth ivory
11 5/8 in. high
What, when, where, significance
Woman,(Venus) of Willendorf from Willendorf, Austria
Found in 1908.
4 1/4 in. high
Limestone
Fecundity
What, where, when, significance?
Woman of Laussel
from a cave in Laussel, Dordogne, France
ca. 25,000-20,000 B.C.E.
painted limestone
approximately 18 in. high
Relief sculpture
Today exhibited in a museum
She once was part of a large rock which stood in the open area in front of a rock shelter.
Note arms have greater importance and hold a bison horn.
What, where, when, significance
Bison reliefs
from a cave at Le Tuc d’Audoubert, Ariége, France
ca. 15,000-10,000 B.C.E.
clay each approximately 2 feet long
Clay applied to rock outcropping
Strict profile
Twisted perspective known as descriptive perspective.
Cracks resulted during the drying process, probably within days of creation.
What, where, when significance?
Pech-Merle Cave paintings
Lot, France
ca. 22,000 B.C.E.
pigment on stone Painted rocks thrown at painting
Human hands leaving a positive imprint? Signatures?
Figures seem to be inspired by the shapes of the outcroppings. Cloud forms inspire imaginative forms.
What where when significance?
Altamira Cave paintings
Santander, Spain
ca. 12,000-11,000 B.C.E.
pigment on stone
What, where, when, significance?
Lascaux Cave paintings
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
ca. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E.
pigment on stone Best known- Running of the bulls
Hundreds of feet from the entrance
Descriptive perspective
What, where, when, significance?
Great Stone Tower of Settlement Wall
Jericho, Israel/Gaza -Ancient Near East
ca. 8,000-7,000 B.C.E Ten thousand year-old stone tower
Unfailing spring
Town covered 10 acres
Built fortifications
What, when, where, significance?
Human Skulls with Restored Features
from Jericho, Israel/Gaza
ca. 7,000-6,000 B.C.E. skulls, plaster, shells. Appearance is strikingly lifelike
Skulls were detached from the bodies and buried separately
Belief in afterlife?????
What, where, when, significance?
Landscape with Volcanic Eruption
Çatal Höyük, Turkey ca. 6150 watercolor copy of a wall painting