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Title : Woman of Willendorf
Date : 22,000 - 21,000 BCE Medium : Limestone Culture : Paleolithic Significance : Women were frequent subjects in prehistoric art. Possibly a fertility statue. Or worship of women. |
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Title : Woman from Brassempouy
Date : ca. 22,000 BCE Medium : Ivory Culture : Paleolithic Significance: Possibly a fertility statue. |
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Title : Bison Horn
Date : 15,000 - 10,000 BCE Medium : reindeer antler Culture: Paleolithic Significance: A fragmentary spear thrower |
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Title : Bird Headed Shaman
Date : 15,000 - 12,000 BCE Medium : Paint Limestone Culture : Paleolithic Significance : Earliest Human depicted visually. |
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Title : Chinese Horse
Date : 15,000 - 12,000 BCE Medium : Cave Wall Culture : Paleolithic Significance : Displays the painters acute power of observation. The act of painting the image might have served some ritual or religious purpose. Sympathetic magic |
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Title : Plastered Skull
Date : ca. 7000 BCE Medium : Plaster over human bone Culture : Neolithic Significance : Found in Jericho. Heads of the deceased were displayed in the homes. A funerary practice suggesting respect for ancestors and the dead. |
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Title : Seated Goddess
Date: ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE Medium : Culture : Neolithic Significance : |
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Title : Female Figure
Date: ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE Medium : baked clay Culture : Neolithic Significance : |
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Title : Bull Hunt
Date : ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE Medium : Wall painting Culture : Neolithic Significance : transition from animals alone to humans dominating animals (paleolithic to neolithic) |
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Title : Dancing Hunter
Date : ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE Medium : Wall painting Culture : Neolithic Significance : |
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Title : Stonehenge
Date : 2750 - 1500 BCE Medium : Stone Megaliths Culture : Neolithic Significance : Possibly a calendar. Represents tremendous manpower, organization, and engineering skill. |
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Title : Wall Painting Showing Boats
Date : ca. 3500 - 3400 BCE Medium : Tomb Painting Culture : Predynastic Egpyt Significance : Funerary Art |
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Title : Palette of Narmer
Date : ca. 3150 - 3125 BCE Medium : Slate Culture : Early Dynastic Egypt Significance : Ritual palette used for cosmetics. Tells the story of the unification of upper and lower Egypt by King Narmer. |
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Title : Step Pyramid of King Djoser
Date : 2681 - 2662 BCE Medium : Limestone Culture : Old Kingdom Egypt Significance : III Dynasty First known major funerary complex |
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Title : Great Pyramids of Giza
Date : 2601 - 2515 BCE Medium : Granite and Limestone, covered in gold Culture : Old Kingdom Egypt Significance : Created to commemorate King Sneferu's sons Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaure. IV dynasty Pyramids reach upwards toward the sky easing the transition to the Gods |
