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Apollo 11 Stones
Date: 25500 BCE
Period/Style: Paleolithic
Location: Namibia
Material: Charcoal on stone
Function: unkown
Context: Unidentified animal form
Great Hall of Bulls
Date: 15.000 BCE
Period/Style: Paleolithic
Location: Lascaux, France
Material: Natural rock contours to show volume of the animals and plants
Function: "Hunting Magic" -Breuil
Foraging nomads
Context:
drawn in a twisted perspective
organic materials
Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
Date: 14.000 BCE
Period/style: Paleolithic
Location: central Mexico
Material: carved sacrum bone
Function: spiritual mask
house spiritual essence of a hunted animal
Context:
found in a tomb
possibly sacred (latin)
Running horned woman
Date:6000 BCE
Period/style: Neolithic
Location: Assili n'Ajjer, Algerian
Material: Pigment on rock
Function: unknown
Context:
layers of painting from different times so makes it hard for carbon dating
depicts motion
person as a god (horns)
in situ on canyon walls
agricultural religion
Bushel with ibex motifs
Date: 4200 BCE
Period/Style: neolithic
Location: Susa, Iran
Material: painted terra cotta
Function: funerary object
Context:
use of potter's wheel
linear & geometric, stylized
Anthropomorphic stele
Date: 4.000 (4th millenium) BCE
Period/style: Neolithic
Location: Arabian Peninsula
Material: sandstone
Function: associated with religious or burial practices
Context:
found on trade routes
Jade cong
Date: 3.300 BCE
Period/Style: Neolithic
Location: Lianghzu, China
Material: carved jade
Function: unknown
Context:
face pattern (may refer to spirits or deities)
abstract designs
square with a circle inside (heaven & earth)
jade usually appears in burials of high ranked people
jade in China is linked with virtues like beauty, durability, and subtlety
Stonehenge
Date: 2.500 BCE
Period/Style: neolithic
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Material: sandstone
Function: marker of the mid-summer solstice
Context:
post and lintel (two vertical posts support a horizontal beam)
stones in a centralized plan
megaliths
three phases
Ambum stone
Date: c. 1.500 BCE
Period/Style: neolithic
Location: Ambum valley, Papua New Guinea
Material: greywacke and stone tools
Function: sacred and credited with supernatural powers
used as a spirit stone in rituals
Context:
human/animal characteristics (mostly animal)
Tlatilco female figure
Date: 1.200 BCE
Period/Style: neolithic
Location: Tlatilco, central Mexico
Material: ceramic and paint
Function: related to women's roles in regards to nature
Context:
show fertility
fascination with physical deformities
no interest in hands or feet
rarely depict males (masked or costumed)
Terracotta fragment
Date: 1.000 BCE
Period/Style: Neolithic
Location: Solomon Islands
Material: incised terra cotta
Function: household use
Context:
dentate designs (circles, hatching, dots)
Lapita peoples (ancestry of polynesia, micronesia) - known for ceramics
sometimes include anthropomorphic figures