1. What do you know about the “evolution” of humans?

2. Bi pedalism Brain size Body size Opposable thumb Face and teeth
Emergance of Humans
Bi pedalism
Brain size
Body size
Opposable thumb
Face and teeth

3. Paleolithic Era Characterized by use of stone tools and weapons
Scavengers
Nomadic (hunters)
All time spent on surviving
Governed by natural leaders

5. Domestication of animals (beginning with the dog)
Neolithic Era or Revolution About 8,000 BC civilization began to emerge
Domestication of animals (beginning with the dog)
Domestication of grains
Use of sophisticated tools
Gathering into communities

6. Civilization emerged in several places at the same time
Indus River valley
Yellow River Valley
Tigris and Euphrates River valley
Nile River valley

7. Civilization was marked by the following characteristics:
Advanced metallurgy
Complex urban centers
Division of labor
Intellectual achievements (calendar, writing, pictographs and ideograms)

8. Ideograms ~ …represent ideas of Paleolithic Man
Longer definition: an object that represents not the object pictured but some thing or idea that the object pictured is supposed to suggest

11. Prehistoric Art

12. Art can function as an artifact:
Art as Artifact
Art can function as an artifact:
a product that represents the ideas and technology of time and place.
Artifacts, such as plays, paintings, poems, and buildings, connect us to our past.
Artifacts can invite us to start with a formal criticism and move toward a contextual criticism.

13. Hall of the Bulls (Caves of Lascaux), c. 15,000-13,000 BCE
The Past’s Story:
Hall of the Bulls (Caves of Lascaux), c. 15,000-13,000 BCE

14. art as a tool for survival/ art for use in rituals/ twisted perspective/ figure ground relationship/ naturalistic renderings

15. Wounded man and disemboweled bison (Lascaux), c.15,000 –13,000 BCE

16. Spotted horses and negative hand imprints (Pech-Merle, Lot, France), c
Spotted horses and negative hand imprints (Pech-Merle, Lot, France), c. 22,000 BCE

17. Wall Painting in Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, (Ardeche), c
Wall Painting in Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, (Ardeche), c. 30,000-28,000 BCE

18. Venus of Willendorf (Austria), c. 28,000- 23,000 BCE, limestone
More stories…
Venus of Willendorf (Austria), c. 28, ,000 BCE, limestone
cult of the fertility goddess/ lack of naturalistic rendering

19. Human skull from Jericho, c. 7000-6000 BCE
spirit trap

20. Stonehenge (Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England), c. 2000 BCE

21. megaliths/ cromlech/ post and lintel construction/ heelstone/ vesica pisces/ omphalos

23. Two Criticisms Formal: Contextual:
Analysis that applies no external conditions or information. It attempts to explain bare artistic organization.
Contextual:
Seeks meaning by adding to formal criticism an examination of related information outside the artwork
Information like: facts about the artist’s life, his or her culture, social and political conditions, and philosophies, and public/expert responses to the work

24. Art as Artifact
Imagine that it is 200 years in the future. The world is very different. The United States may not even exist anymore!
Archeologists have discovered a small building with many artifacts. They speculate what these artifacts were used for, and then they use them to tell a story about us.

25. Art as Artifact
Pick 5 things from the year 2016 that you think would best tell our story if individuals didn’t know about us!
Explain your reasoning!