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Woman From Willendorf
Paleolithic |
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Wall Painting of Four Horses
Chauvet Cave France Paleolithic |
Animals grazing, running
variety of animals used hair, natural pigment, |
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Hall of Bulls
Lascaux Cave France Paleolithic |
Twisted perspective
Earliest representation of the human figure (not shown) |
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Catal hoyuk
Neolithic Settlement Neolithic Age |
Mud brick, timber, natural materials
dense living organic growth of building outward, no street navigation by rooftop entrance in the ceiling bull decoration early fresco dead family members were buried in the house after being laid outside to be eaten by animals |
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Mother Goddess Figure
Catal hoyuk Neolithic Settlement Neolithic Age |
additive sculpture in the round
exaggerated belly, breast hands resting on feline head illustrates power over nature child between feet shoulder emphsis to demonstrate power |
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Stone Henge
Neolithic Age |
ritual center
constructed in four stages trillionths constructed according to sun cycles |
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Tomb Interior
Newgrange Neolithic Age |
dedicated to the sun and dead
post and lintel corbel vaulting concentric circles and spirals ritual involving midsummer solstice |
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Nanna Ziggurat
Ur Sumerian |
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Carved Vase from Uruk
Sumerian |
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Votive Figures from Eshunna
Sumerian |
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Stele of Naramsin
Akkadian |
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Votive Statue of Gudea
Lagash |
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Stele of Hammurabi
Babylonian |
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Lamassu (human-heded winged lion)
Assyrian |
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The Palette of Narmer
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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The Funerary Complex of Djoser
OldKingdom Egyptian |
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Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of King Khafre
Old Kingdom Egytian |
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The Statue of Khafra
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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Great Pyramids of Giza
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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The Great Temple of Amun at Karnak
New Kingdom Egyptian |
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Bull Leaping / Jumping
Minoan |
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The Minoan Palace Complex at Knossos
Crete Minoan |
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The Octopus Flask
Minoan |
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The So Called Treasury of Atreus
Corbel vault Mycenaean |
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Mycenae, Greece
Mycenaean |
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Paleolithic
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A prehistoric period
Stone tools were developed during this time 99% of human history |
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Neolithic
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~Wondering hunter settled down into communities / agriculture/ religion
~Fertile Crescent ~Themes : human activity, building for community |
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Prehistoric
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before the written word
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abstraction
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the simplification or (not realistic) representation of something
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post and lintel
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megalithic architecture
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mega = large
Lithic = Rock ~huge rocks that stuff was built with (stone henge) |
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The Fertile Crescent
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~Area of Civilization that was fertile land
~Early city states were developed here ~Rivers: Tigris, Euphrates, Nile ~ Mesopotamia, Egypt |
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mastaba
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is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's ancient period. Mastabas were constructed out of mud-bricks or stone.
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step pyramid
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During the Third dynasty of Egypt, the architect Imhotep built Egypt's first step pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, by building a series of six successively smaller mastabas (an earlier form of tomb structure), one a top of another.
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Ka
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Egyptian soul
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monotheistic
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single god
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