ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Passage Grave, Stone Age, Newgrange
1 Nov 2016
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What does the content and medium of art reveal regarding the cultural components of the producers & audience. What technical information can be gleaned from the product and production process of art. Art is guided by aesthetics: philosophies about what has beauty and value in. Ethnomusicology: the study of music from an anthropological perspective. Entrance designed by italian architect, massimiliano fuksas. 175-meter, air-filled tunnel 37 meters below the sea near marseilles. Second phase is between 19,000 and 18,000. Discovered by speleologists eliette brunel deschamps, christian hillaire and jean-marie chauvet. One of the oldest and most recent discoveries. Sharp contrast to the realistic depiction of animals. Begins in atlantic europe around 4,000 bc. Un-cremated remains of one newborn baby, six juveniles, and 16-22 adults. Only one of the adults lived beyond 40 years. It consists of a mound measuring some 80-95 meters in diameter and some. Correlated with the ancient tale of the (cid:494)wooing of etain .
