ART 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Bison, Lascaux, Woolly Mammoth
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Humans were nomadic- hunters and gatherers: attributes- features that identify a particular gures identity. Ex: fertility statues with enlarged and exaggerated pelvic region and breasts, i. e. woman from willendorf: cave painting were usually made with red earth or charcoal sometimes with some sort of liquid to paint/draw with, chavez cave, france. Wall painting with horses, aurochs (ancient oxen ) and rhinoceroses, chalet cave: 32,000-30,000 bce. Lions and bison, end chamber. c. 32,000-30,000 bce: lascaux caves, france. Bird-headed man with bison. c. 15,000 bce. !1: length ~9", only narrative that they found in lascaux some kind of story between bird- Monday, august 29, 2016 headed man and the bison: bison, on the ceiling of a cave. Post and lintel construction: megalithic architecture- from the greek for large- megas , stone- lithos . Labor specialization: written language and the development of the city-state were the two most important. The behistun (or bisutin) inscription: created by/for darius the great.
