Artistic revolution Emergence of Mind ► Paleolithic world ► Economy/technology  Gatherer-hunters/opportunists  Stone, bone, fiber ► Origins of agriculture.

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Artistic revolution Emergence of Mind ► Paleolithic world ► Economy/technology  Gatherer-hunters/opportunists  Stone, bone, fiber ► Origins of agriculture and “urban life” not until the early neolithic 11,000 years ago.

Art or magic? ► Is magic the origin of art? What is art? ► Is magic the origin of religion? ► Can we find the origin of culture in art?

Abstract expressions ► Earliest known from 50,000 years ago ► Found in many areas of Europe, Africa, Australia (Most in Spain and France). ► Typical forms: abstract rock carvings, painted animal forms, carved images of females or animals.

► Representational art  fixed ► portable  Abstractions and  literal ► meanings? ► Magic  sympathetic ► transfigurative  Traditional ► healing

La grotte de Lascaux, France

Visit ►

Cave: Tuc d’Audoubert, France

Altamira, Spain

Antler atlatl fragment, ~ 20,000 years ago. La Madeleine, France. (Atlatls are spear throwers)

Atlatl in use

Altamira Cave, Spain

Mammoth ivory Czechoslovakia 12,550 years ago “Venus” figurines 45,000 years old, Germany Hohle Fels

From Germany. 200,000 years ago?

Venus of Dolni Vestonici Venus de Luassel

Venus of Walendrof, Germany. Approx. 30,000 years ago

Neanderthal “flute’ ????

Australia France Inn rock overhangs

Australia

Significance? ► Do images represent efforts to control nature? ► Do they signify origins of goddess worship…a mother earth cult? ► Who is responsible for the art and what responsibilities are associated with its production? ► Is power conveyed to the creator? ► What is the relationship between art and religion?

Earliest excavated temple ► Gobekli Tepe ► Mesolithic/Neolithic period structure with carved images, columns. ► Predates agriculture ► First found in 1963 by University of Chicago. Not excavated until 1994 by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt (GAI). Work completed in Reported to public in 2011.

Artists rendering of site under construction 11,000 years ago.