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11 Cards in this Set
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Apollo 11 Cave Stones (25,000 BCE):
- Namibia - Oldest Rock Paintings in Africa. -Charcoal on stone - Situatedin the Huns Mountains of south-western Namibia, it was named after the Apollo11 spaceship in July 1969, by the German archeologist Wolfgang Wendt, who ledthe team of scientists and researchers that excavated the cave. |
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Camelid sacrum (14,000-7,000 BCE): - Central Mexico - Cone carving of a canine skull made from pelvic bone |
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Running horned woman (6,000-4,000 BCE): - Algeria - Pigment on rock - French archeologists discovered these types of art works in colonial Algeria |
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Beaker with ibex motifs (4,000 BCE): - Iran - Paint on terra cotta - Not a naturalistic drawing |
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Anthropomorphic Stele (3,500 BCE): - Arabia - Sandstone - Unrealistic human shape - Geometric shapes |
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Stonehenge (2,700-1,500 BCE): - Wiltshire, England - Believed to be a celestial calendar - Evidence found that it was a burial ground |
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Skara Brae - Neolithic Scotland - Possibly same influence as the Vikings |
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Jade Cong (3,000 BCE): -China -Rectangular shape with rounded corners -Hole in the middle - Chinese had no way of cutting the strong jade so they sanded it down, a process that took a long time |
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Ambum Stone (1,500 BCE): - Papa New Guinea - Greywacke (Sandstone) - Possibly an anteater or a now extinct creature, unrealistic nonetheless - Very hard material, most likely took a lot of time and effort to sculpt - Purpose is unknown |
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Tiatilico Female Figurine (1,000 BCE): - Central Mexico - Ceramic (fired clay) - Ornate hair and relative lack of detail shows hair was important to this culture - Area Aztecs lived, 1,000 years prior |
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Terra Cotta Fragments (1,000 BCE): - Solomon Islands (south Pacific) - Clay - Detailed craftsmanship, a lot of geometric shapes |
