Marking the Land

Marking the Land

1. Sculptures

   • Gavrinis
     • Location: Ireland
       • Date: 3200BC
         • Rock engravings inside Newgrange Tomb
   • le tuc d'audoubert
     • Location: Southwest France
       • Relief sculpture created from material within the cave
     • Date: 13,500BC
   • Roc-aux-Sorciers
     • Location: France
       • Date: 12,000BC
         • Relief sculpture carved into the rock
   • Sculptures display the craftsmanship of pre-historic people. Some are high relief structures that foreshadow the construction of sculptures like Lammasu. Others are intricately sculpted rock engravings. Sculptures tend to be inspired by what people saw, but when considering the engravings of Gavrinis, we are left to wonder the origins of it's inspiration

2. Geoglyphs

   • Nasca Lines
     • Location: Southern Peru
       • Date: 500BC-500AD
         • Made for rituals to pray for rain
   • Serpent Mound
     • Location: Ohio
       • Date:300BC-1070AD
         • Aligned with Cosmic Events
   • Geoglyphs are constructions created in the earth. Their display upwards to the heavens not only shows the selflessness of it's creators, who will never see the art work themselves but also display their understanding of their cosmic origins

3. Monuments

   • Ring of Brodgar
     • Location: Scotland
       • Date: 2500BC-2000BC
         • Stone circle used for ceremonial rituals
   • Stonehenge
     • Location: England
       • Used for rituals and aligned with cosmic events
     • Date: 3000BC-2000BC
   • Pentre Ifan
     • Location: Wales
       • Date: 3500BC
         • Traditionally used for communal burial
   • Monuments continue to stand as great achievements of prehistoric humans. They are a testament to our ability to engineer and execute difficult projects that require a division of labour. They express our understanding of eternity because these projects are demonstrations of the fundamental laws of nature that have always been present.

4. Paintings

   • Altamira
     • Location: Northern Spain
       • Date: 36,000BC
         • First European cave paintings discovered
   • Çatalhöyük
     • Location: Turkey
       • Date: 9000Bc
         • Decorated walls of house in Çatalhöyük town
   • Paintings display, not only what we saw at that time, but our desire to express ourselves. Before language was invented such imagery would have contained messages that communicated stories

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