AH 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Woolly Mammoth, Stone Age, Megalith
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Sculpture in the round- sculpture not on wall, you cannot walk around. Relief sculpture- carved on a building or carved on a wall. Chisel- hand tool with a sharp blade at the end used to cut and shape materials. Composite view- naturalistic, not a figure shown in profile and other part in front view. The idea hierarchy and divison of labor begins. Religious shrines, metal working, weaving, coins, recording of coins. 400 hours to make, made of woolly mammoth ivory. They are important because it showed that people this early had an imagination, had the time to think about other ideas besides survival. They are believed to represent magicians and sorcerers with masks on. Made of stone, size of a hand stone. Believed to have been made for porn, fertility, has a corn looking head- corn buried with the dead to represent the fertility of the land. Found in caves cause that"s were they took shelter.
