1. Friday Pre Historic Art! Late Summer Reading Assignment Due
Reminder: New students, complete your essays by next Friday!!!
Homework: Ch.2 Worksheet Due Tuesday.

2. Prehistoric Art

3. LATIN TERMS TO KNOW “old” (Cro-Magnon man 1st urge to create images)
PALEO
“middle / between” (Glaciers receed & more temperate climate develops)
MESO
“new” (TIME WHEN MAN BECAME HERDSMEN & FARMERS)
NEO
LITH
“stone”

4. Pebble resembling a human face from Makaspansgat South Africa
ca. 3,000,000 B.C.E.
reddish brown jasperite
approximately 2 3/8 in. wide

6. Venus of Willendorf from Willendorf, Austria ca. 28,000-25,000 B.C.E.
limestone
4 1/4 in. high
cult of the fertility goddess/ lack of naturalistic rendering

8. Woman from Willendorf, Austria
Woman holding bisson from Laussel, France 25,000-20,000 BCE

9. Two Bison reliefs made of clay (each about 2’ long)
Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France, ca BCE

10. Bison with turned head (La Madeleine), c. 12,000 BCE, reindeer horn

11. “SPECIAL CAVES”…. The Oldest? The First One Found? The Most Extensive?
Chauvet Cave (France)
Altamira (Spain)
Lascaux (France)

12. The Chauvet Cave
Discovered in 1994 – named after the exploration leader, Jean-Marie Chauvet
Using c-14 dating, found that these were 15,000 years OLDER than Altamira!!
Lions and bears depicted, but never part of the Paleolithic diet
Animals are depicted NATURALISTICALLY

13. Caves of ALTAMIRA (Spain)
Discovered in 1879 – some of the first discovered
Were originally considered fakes, but mineral deposits would’ve taken 1000s of years to accumulate
Mostly Bison from a profile view

14. Bison at Altamira (Santander, Spain), c. 12,000-11,000 BCE

16. Caves of Lascaux (France)
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
ca. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E.
pigment on stone
The most extensively decorated caves

17. Caves of Lascaux (France)
Magnificent gallery known as the HALL OF BULLS

18. Caves of Lascaux (France)
Denotes the CONCEPT of a BULL using TWISTED PERSPECTIVE

19. Caves of Lascaux (France)

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

21. 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

23. 1st experiments with urban living
Neolithic time: convergence to an agricultural society.
Lots of trade (tools & weapons)
Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD
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Çatal Höyük
Turkey
ca. 6,000-5,900 B.C.E.

24. Deer Hunt detail of a wall painting from Level III
Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD
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Deer Hunt detail of a wall painting from Level III
Çatal Höyük, Turkey
ca. 5,750 B.C.E.

25. Çatal Höyük Turkey ca. 6,000-5,900 B.C.E.
Slide concept by William V. Ganis, PhD
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26. Landscape with Volcanic Eruption
Çatal Höyük, Turkey ca watercolor copy of a wall painting

27. STONEHENGE (ca. 2550-1660 BCE) BIG STONES!
Built in Salisbury Plain, England
Created in 3 phases over a 1,000 years
Keyed up with astronomical events, such as the Summer Solstice… when the Sun rises directly over the Heel Stone as seen from the Altar Stone
BIG STONES!

29. megaliths/ cromlech/ post and lintel construction/ heelstone/

31. cromlech

35. dolmen