Flashcards
The Prehistoric World
Cards in this deck (17)
- 1—Venus of Willendorf
-Paleolithic Europe
-Limeston/red ocre Fertile Female
-Represented Fertility and was a good luck charm - 2—Woman from Brassempouy, France
-Paleolithic Europe
-Ivory Head
-Fertility Image, intimacy, first self-portrait, memory images
- 3—Lion-Human
-Paleolithic Europe
-Man body w/ lion head; made of ivory
-could represent power, transformation, or could be used as a weapon
- 4—Chauvet Cave
-Paleolithic Europe
-Animal paintings not included in their diet
-animals connected to power; an imaginary magical world
- 5—Altamira Cave
-Paleolithic Era
-painted with red & yellow ochre; bison
-power in animals
- 6—Pech Merle Cave
-Paleolithic Era
- Spotted horses and negative handprints
-Power and handprints could represent signatures
- 7—Lascaux Caves
-Paleolithic Europe
-Chinese Horse; pregnant?; surrounded by traps
-hunting; life & death
- 8—Lascaux Caves
-Paleolithic Europe
-located in the well of the cave; rhino, wounded man, & disemboweled bison
-life & death
- 9—Bison from Le Tuc'd Audoubert
-Paleolithic Europe
-Built up from rock form with clay
-power
- 10—Bison with Turned Head
-Paleolithic Europe
- Bison licking himself
- Probably wounded
- 11—Reclining Woman
-Paleolithic Era
-red ochre
-sexuality, fertility
- 12—Woman Holding Bison Horn
-Paleolithic Europe
-large breast and stomach; hand bringing attention to the stomach area
-Fertility; Horn is calling for a child?
- 13—Temple B at Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
-Neolithic Europe
-Animal predators
- columns can represent lunar patterns
- 14—Dwelling at Skara Brae, Scotland
-Neolithic Europe
-Living spaces dug into the hills by the water
-firepit in middle; beds on the side; stonewall overlay
- 15—Tomb at Newgrange, Irelands
-Neolithic Europe
-Dome is held up by the weight of the corbeled stones
- Burial chamber
- 16—Stonehenge, England
-Neolithic Europe
- circles of stones
-functioned as an astronomical observatory
- 17—Hagar Qim, Malta
-Neolithic Europe
-Stone Temple; used curved forms of building
-Religious shrines and alters