FAH205H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blombos Cave, Ochre, Cave Painting
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9000 bce: greek paleo as old, lithic means stone, this is divided by 3 phases, mesolithic: ca. 8000 bce-4000 bce: meso means middle period, the transitional phase, neolithic: ca. 6000 bce-2000 bce: neo means new, as the ice age glaciers receded, paleolithic, Neolithic, bronze age, and iron age settlements increased from south to north. From blombos cave, southern cape coast, south africa. Ceiling of a cave at altamira, spain. c. 12,500 bce. Unbaked clay: two bison leaning against a ridge of rock, beast are meddled in high relief, display conventions as in earlier paints, emphasis on broad masses of the mea bearing. Anks and shoulders: made them life like by engraving short parallel lines below their necks to represent their shaggy coast, small footprints in the clay foot suggest important group rites took place here. Detail of a wall painting from cataljoyuk, turkey. c. 6000 bce. Dolmen da aboboreira, baiao, portugal, 3rd millennium bce.
