ARTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chauvet Cave, Niaux, Newgrange
1 Dec 2017
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Making space meaningful, imposing human ideas on space. Cave used by human beings in significant way. Covered with ancient paintings (pictographs) on cave walls, depicts human ideas. Pictures were important, but there"s no clear evidence of what they meant. Space was important, manipulated and altered by humans to make it meaningful. On raised ground, highest point of land in the area. Passage way to enter the mound, expands into cross shaped chamber. Simulation of grotte de niaux, same idea but artificial and constructed. Carved geometric ornaments decorating the stone in front of the door, carved with bones and antlers. Hole above the door, transom, on dec. 21st (winter solstice) provides direct sunlight to the chamber, only day of the year that the chamber receives sunlight. Complex of mounds, smaller ones around a bigger one. Smaller than newgrange, same design, large mound with passage opening.
