Flashcards
Lecture 1: Stone Age
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- 1What role did fire play in the creation of early human habitation and life?- Made meat safe and easier to eat
- Provided protection and warmth
- Created a source of mystery and spirituality
- Place making and focus around a center - 2What are some of the important differences between the Old and New Stone Age?Old Stone Age:
- Focus on the earth
- Emphasis on the feminine aspect
- Used paintings to show their reverence for animals and the earth
- Created womb-like sanctuaries in caves
- Nomadic; temporary dwellings
New Stone Age:
- Focus on the sky and celestial elements
- Emphasis on the masculine aspect
- Used stone monuments to show reverence to celestial beings and track time
- Development of agriculture created permanent settlements - 3Old Stone Age- Focus on Earth
- Feminine
- Womblike
- ex: Lascaux - 4New Stone Age- Focus on sky
- Masculine
- Sky aspiring
- ex: Stonehenge - 5—Lascaux (Lascaux, France)
- Mystery of life, death, birth
- Emergence of religious ritual, natural features as sanctuaries
- Invention of painting, art as super reality, art as power, images enhanced on cave surfaces
- 6—Hagar Qim (Malta)
- Constructed cave
- Womb-like expansion & contraction
- Horned-shaped entry gate = male aspect
- Outdoor courtyard for congregation - 7—Menec Alignments & Menhirs (Carnac, France)
- Menhir= upright stone
- Used to measure the longest and shortest days of the year, as well as solstices
- Used as mid-space objects focusing on space around them
- 8—Stonehenge (Salisbury Plain, England)
- Emphasis upon the masculine, sky aspiring, prediction of the weather via
the seasons
- Tried to translate wood construction (what they knew) into stone (a new material)