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Spotted horses and negative hand impirings
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wall painting
Cave at Pech-Merle, Lot, France ca 22,000 BCE 11'2" long Dots must've meant something to artists. Hand: artist blew or spat pigment around. Signatures? These were chosen for specific location: fit into shape of the rock |
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Rhinoceros, Wounded man and disemboweled bison
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Lascaux, Dordogne, France
15000-13000 BCE 3'8" Rhino to the left, six dots; to right: bison with bowels hanging out bird-faced man lying down; prominent penis what is happening and who hurt who? early example of narrative even though few would've been able to read it due to location |
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Stonehenge
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Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
2550-1600 BCE 97' diametre 24' high Megaliths: big stones and Henges: in a circle Rough cut sarsen stones and bluestones capped by lintels, a stone beam astronomical observatory? |
