Prehistory Images , B.C.E
1. Study and sketch the painting and sculpture above 2. Describe the artwork using terms such as line, color, mass, composition, space, content and medium 3. Write a short paragraph about each work speculating how and why it was made.
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Image 1 Animal facing left, from the Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia, ca. 23,000 BCE. Charcoal on stone, 5” X 4 1/4”. State Museum of Namibia, Windhoek.
Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E.
View Lascaux cave. Look at page What do you think the cave artists used for paint, brushes, and lighting while working. Look at the next few slides and speculate how, why and with what the artists may have made these works. Difficulties? Artistic impressions that each material reveals? What relationship do each work of art have to its material with respect to form and function?
Jade cong. Linagshu China B.C.E. Carved jade. asia/imperial-china/neolithic-art-china/v/jade-cong Look at the next few slides and speculate how, why and with what the artists may have made these works. Difficulties? Artistic impressions that each material reveals? What relationship do each work of art have to its material with respect to form and function?
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Tlatilco female figurine. Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco. 1200–900 B.C.E. Ceramic.
Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14,000–7000 B.C.E. Bone. ml
The Ambum Stone. Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. c B.C.E. Greywacke. / /pacific-art-gods-ghosts-and- men/230246
This exquisite and exceedingly rare sculpture, discovered in a cave in the early 1960s, was made more than 3500 years ago and is one of the earliest known Pacific works of art. Ancient stone mortars and pestles from Papua New Guinea are often fashioned into the forms of birds, humans and animals. However, the Ambum stone is on a higher sculptural level than other prehistoric pestles and has a greater level of figurative detail. When the process involved in producing the Ambum stone is taken into consideration it is all the more magnificent—working with the tough greywacke stone would have involved many weeks of laborious chipping and hammering at the surface with stone tools. Despite the various animalistic features such as the nose tip, which resembles that of a fruit bat, the Ambum stone may depict a juvenile long-beaked echidna (spiny anteater), an animal thought to have been revered for its useful fat deposits prior to the introduction of pigs. The significance and function of the Ambum stone remains obscure, as little is known about the people who produced this beautiful work. Such objects are understood to have supernatural powers and considered sacred by present-day people in the region.
Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium B.C.E. Sandstone. OLE0A
Running horned woman. Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6000–4000 B.C.E. Pigment on rock. prehistoric-rock-painting-probably-depicting-a- horned/print/2/ html
Terra cotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reff Islands B.C.E. Terra cotta (incised).
Stonehenge Wiltshire, UK. Neolithic Europe. C B.C.E. Standstone.
Homework Read about Stonehenge on bradshaw website enge/index.php enge/index.php Study images. Be able to identify. Monday-quiz on identifying first 11 images. Be prepared to discuss Stonehenge. Non AP only need to know name, time, bonus for media