Art History Final

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Temple of Quetzalcoatl

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Mesoamerica, 3rd century AD

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Dualism

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Cultural contributions tend to have two natures

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Similarities to Old World

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-agricultural & animal domestication

-organized social and religious rituals

-class development

-art

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Differences to Old World

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-only pack animals

-technology underdeveloped

-mostly illiterate

-geographic areas had little contact with each other

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El Castillo

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Mesoamerica c. 800-900 AD

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ElCaracol

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Mesoamerica c. 800-900 AD

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Chavín de Huántar

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Ceremonial center in northern Highlands of Peru, home of Chavin culture, contains a temple complex.

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RaimindiStele

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South America, 800-200 BC

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Gatewayof the Sun

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South America, c. 375-700 AD

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SerpantMound

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North America, c. 1070 AD

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Codex

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abound volume resembling a modern book, in contrast to earlier books in the formof scrolls

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Teotihuacan

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Mexicancity that was destroyed in the eighth century. Was the sixth world’s largestcity. The Aztecs consider it the “place of the gods” and made pilgrimages to iteven after abandonment.

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Borgia Codex

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Mesoamerica,c. 1400-1500 AD

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Coyolxauhqui

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Mesoamerica, c. 1469 AD

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Coatlicue

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Mesoamerica,c. 1487-1520 AD

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LedgerPaintings

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drawings done by plains native Americans done on ledger books given by the people moving them onto reservations

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EagleTransformation Mask

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North America 19th century AD

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HonoringSong at the Painted Tipi

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North America, 1880 AD

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Katsina

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figurines; benevolent supernatural spirits personifying ancestors and natural elements living in mountains and water sources. Humans join their world after death.

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“MotherCulture”

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Olmecculture; many distinctive Mesoamerican religious, social, and artistic traditions can be traced to

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Pre-Columbian

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Termused to collectively describe American history before AD 1492

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Pre-Contact

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Term used todescribe American cultures before they came into personal contact with Europeans

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Nok Head

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Nigeria, c. 500 BC-200 AD

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Lyndenburg Head

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South Africa, c. 500 AD

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Scarification

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Decorative markings on the human body made by cuttingor piercing the flesh to create scars.

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Primitivism

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an art movement borrowing visual ideals from “prehistoric peoples”

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Africa Presents Scholars with these problems

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-New arthistorical field

-functional art

-nonarrative or historical context

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Head of a King

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Nigeria, 12th-13th centuries AD

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Great Mosque at Djenne

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Mali, 13th century AD

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Beta Giorghis

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Ethiopia, c. 1220 AD

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Ile-Ife

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Yoruba civilization; the place where the gods Oduduwa and Obatala created the earth and its peoples.

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Great Enclosure of the Great Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe, 14th centuryAD

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Monoliths

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sculptures carved from a single block of stone

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Monolith

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Zimbabwe 15th century AD

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WaistPendant of the Queen Mother

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Nigeria, c. 1520 AD

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Megalith

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A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.

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Homage to Steve Biko

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Willie Bester, South Africa, 1992 AD