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Cave paintings of animals
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Lascaux (means "into the earth"), France
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Carved frieze of animals
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Le Cap Blanc, France
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Carved relief with aurochs
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Bourdailles, France
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Venus of Willendorf
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Austrian- large figure, faceless, common features, large wombe; relates to fertility and surplus
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Venus of Lespugue
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Dordogne, France
ivory, covered in sut large figured, faceless |
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Venus of Laussel
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Dordogne, France
-relief carving -one hand rested on womb -other hand holds horn (symbol of fertility and renewal) -horns regrow on animals (symbolizing renewal) |
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Menhirs at Carnac, Normandy
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-Scottish for "tall stone"
-prevalence to the sky, vertical orientation -human like character -stand straight up, connecting us to the sky. |
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Carnac chamber tomb (dolmen)
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-burial pits that are dug and filled with a body and capped by standing stones
-took an entire village to make some capstones. |
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Stonehenge- Salisbury Plain, England
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-used as religous site for 2000 years
-deals with the idea of time -circles (symbolize completeness) -Hirophony = hierarchy+euphony -connects to the solar patterns as well as human patters |
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Megalith ("great stone")
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large upright stones placd in groups
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Catal Hyuck
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-Asia Minor (Turkey)
-one of the first villages -clustered rectolinear cells |
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Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
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-raised
-a large mound with an active temple on top -symmetrical -hierarchial -enclosed, protected -public open space |
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White Temple
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-Uruk
-built from Adobe- Stiations-ceramic cones -Temple was raised on a mound -clearly rectangular, symmetrical -limitations to building out of mud: -walls had to be thick, timbers had to be found |
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The city of Erbil
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-built on artificial mound called "tell"
-There is a wall that has a protective character from invasion as well as the chaos from nature |
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The city of Ur
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-difference of the natural environment and the everyday buildings and monumental
-house consists of rooms facing courtyard -no overall structural plan or organization. |
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Temple of Mardux ("Tower of Babel") City of Babylon
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-large structured city-one of the largest in the Mesopotamia area
-survived because they learned to irrigate -Palace complex |
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Characteristics of structured cities
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1. more densely populated
2. Division of Labor 3. Concentration on surplus 4. Monumental Architecture 5. Religous order 6. Written language 7. Artistic ability 8. organized society |
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corbelled
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curved
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entasis
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bowing of column
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propylon
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gateway to sanctuary
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megaron
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temple structure (plan)
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stylobate
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stairs around Greek temple
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Habsed court
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room filled with necessities of Pharaoh
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Zoser's Funerary Complex and Step Pyramid
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-Imhotep was architect-1st in history
-based off of mastabas |
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Temple of Amon
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Karnak
-has a ritualized crossing of thresholds along an axis -goes from more common to more sacred gradually |
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Hypostyle Hall of Seti I and Ramesses II
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Karnak
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Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple
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Karnak
-among cliffs -series of teraces and ramps -axial approach (linear) -near river |
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Palace of Knossos
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-first free standing columns in western architecture
-bull was major part of rituals |
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Paleolithic period
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-"old stone age""
-gathering and food people who were nomadic (moved around) -food gatherers |
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Neolithis period
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"new stone age"
-food producing (crops) people who were stationary |
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how do the pyramids at Teotihuacan in Mexico differ from those at Giza in Egypt?
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-I Teotihuacan, the pyramids mimic the world around them
- At Giza, the pyramids are meant to stand out and hover over the land. |
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The word "mesopotamia" means
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land between the rivers
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