APAH_Prehistory

What is the Context of this piece?

• Oldest known work of art
• A profile of a large cat, or an animal human hybrid
• Charcoal on Stone
• Discovered on the Celebration of Apollo

Content?

• Evidence of scaffolding found in Caves in France
• Charcoal and ocher on stone
• Wild bulls, horses, deer
• twisted perspective

Form?

• Camelid- an extinct camel like animal
• Sacrum is the bone located at the base of the spine
• bone has been worked to recreate the skull of a dog
• The Sacrum serves as the second skull

Function?

• Calendar
• gateway to the underworld
• landing site for ancient aliens
• site of ritual sacrifice

Content?

• Lapita culture known for its pottery
• one of the oldest human faces in Oceanic art
• dots, circles and hatching, outlined forms, including a human face
• used a comb like tool to stamp designs into clay

Form?

• Tlatilco is noted for its pottery
• flipper like arms, huge thighs, pronounced hips, pinched waists, unclothed except for jewelry, unique hairstyles
• shows dualism found that is found in later Mesoamerican cultures
• bifurcated female

Context?

• Thin walled vessel thrown on a potter's wheel
• Found near burial site, but not with human remains
• Clan symbol inside horns
• Oversized horn, abstracted/stylized motif

Function?

• At one time the desert was a grassland; climate changes turned it into a desert
• More than 15,000 drawings and engravings found at the site
• Exhibits a composite view of the body
• Indicates a divine figure who brings the rain

Content?

• Anthropomorphic: resembling a human form, but is not human
• religious or burial significance
• found in an area with extensive trade routes
• belted robe from which hangs a double bladed knife or sword

Form?

• Four corners usually carry mask-like images with pronounced eyes and fangs
• Jade found in tombs; interred with the dead in elaborate rituals
• Placed around bodies- some purposefully broken/burned.
• Later Chinese linked Jade with virtues- durability, beauty, subtlety