ARTH 1440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Absolute Dating, Relative Dating, Thermoluminescence Dating
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Art 1440 chapter 1 prehistoric art, prehistoric: time before written records, sometimes we may never fully know things about art, the artist. Things are seen by where we are and how our society is. Everything is open to different interpretation: european dates fir the prehistoric period, (upper) paleolithic period a. i. circa 40,000 bce to circa 8,000 bce, neolithic period b. i. Circa 6500 bce to circa 1200 bce: bronze age c. i. Circa 2300 to 800 bce: iron age d. i. Began circa 1000 bce: periods of the stone age, paleolithic (greek for old and stone) a. i. Lower: further away from us in time a. ii. Upper: closer to surface bc it occurred more recently in time: mesolithic* (greek for middle and stone) b. i. * no one uses this term anymore: neolithic (greek for new and stone, bc and ce, before the common era and the common era, time before the common era is counted down: b. i.
