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Venus of Willendorf
28,000 BC
Paleolithic
Fetishistic |
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Lascaux Caves
France
15000 BC
Paleolithic
Totemic |
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Pech-Merle Caves
22000 BC
Paleolithic
Fetishistic |
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Catal Hoyuk
6000 BC
Mesolithic |
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Jericho Skull
7000 BC
Mesolithic
Fetishistic |
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Stonehenge
England
2550 BC
Neolithic |
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Ziggurat at Ur
2100 BC
Sumerian
Divine Architecture |
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Standard of Ur
2600 BC
Sumerian |
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Victory Stele of Naram Sin
2218 BC
Akkadian |
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Head of Akkadian Ruler
Nineveh
2200 BC
Akkadian |
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Stele of Hammurabi
1780 BC
Old Babylonian
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Lamassu
Citadel of Sargon II
Khorsabad
720 BC
Assyrian |
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Ishtar Gates
575 BC
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Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Saqqara
2675 BC
Predynastic Egyptian |
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Palette of King Narmer
3000 BC
Predynastic Egyptian |
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Pyramids
Gizeh
2551-2471 BC
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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Panel of Hesire
2675 BC
Predynastic Egyptian |
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Ka statue of Khafre
2494 BC
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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Mastaba of Ti: "Ti Watching Hippo Hunt"
2350 BC
Old Kingdom Egyptian |
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The magic is in the process
(painting the horses and then "killing them" with spears) |
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The magic is in the object
(re-use of skulls, belly button in venus) |
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frontal view...
(usually represented in shoulders) |
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| A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; also called twisted perspective. |
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| Greek, "great stone." A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures. |
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| An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle, often surrounded by a ditch |
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| a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides roofed over with a stone slab. |
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