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Title: Decorated Ocher
Artist: Unknown
Year: 77,000 years ago
Style: Paleolithic
Significance: Engraved block of red ocher found in South Africa. Was probably used as a crayon.
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Title: Woman from Willendorf
Artist: Unknown
Year: 24,000 BCE
Style: Paeolithic
Significance: Carved from limestone, originally red in color. Possibly given as a friendship gift to represent health and fertility |
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Title: Woman from Brassempouy
Artist: Unknown
Year: 30,000 BCE
Style: Paleolithic
Significance: A small ivory head, which was a memory image piece. Also considered an abstraction. |
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Title: Bird-Headed Man With Bison
Artist: Unknown
Year: 15,000 BCE
Style: Paleolithic
Significance: A painted image on limestone. Appears to be a bird-headed hunter being killed by a bison. Hunter also has a weapon. |
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Title: Stonehenge
Artist: Unknown
Year: 2900-1500 BCE
Style: Neolithic
Significance: A megalithic monument, likely used as a human compass. One of the most complex, with eight different phases of construction over a long period of time |
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Title: Human Figure
Artist: Unknown
Year: 6500 BCE
Style: Neolithic
Significance: Ceramic person figurine, probably used as a toy. No gender, just given general human form. |
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Title: Carved Vessel
Artist: Unknown
Year: 3300-3000
Style: Sumerian
Significance: A tall vessel of carved alabaster. Carvings are used to tell a story. |
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Title: Votive Figures
Artist: Unknown
Year: 2900-2600
Style: Sumerian
Significance: Limestone statues of religious art. They are images dedicated to the gods. |
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Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
Artist: Unknown
Year: 2254-2218
Style: Sumerian
Significance: Depicts a battle using "hieratic scale", meaning that the hero is larger than everyone else. Used as a memorial. |
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Title: Votive Statue of Gudea
Artist: Unknown
Year: 2090 BCE
Style: Sumerian
Significance: Depicts the strong ruler, Gudea wearing a long garment. He hold a vessel from which life-giving water flows. Emphasizes power. |
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Title: Lion Gate
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1400 BCE
Style: Hittite
Significance: Lions carved out of limestone. Created to be a guardian or protector |
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Title: Killing Lions
Artist: Unknown
Year: 875-860
Style: Assyrian
Significance: A vivid lion hunting scene of a ceremornial hunt. |
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Title: Guardian Figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II
Artist: Unknown
Year: 721-706
Style: Assyrian
Significance: Guardian figure at the entrance of a city with a head of a man, body of a lion, and wings of an eagle. This type of creature was known as a Lamassus. |
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Title: Stele of Hammurabi
Artist: Unknown
Year: 1792-1750
Style: Babylonian
Significance: This statue was created to show what the law was. Punishments for disobeying this law were based on wealth, class, gender, etc. |
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| combined the bearded head of a man, the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the horned headdress of a god |
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| huge stepped structures with a temple or shrine on top; used as a sacred site. |
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| wedge shaped writing symbols into clay tablets, made by using a stylus |
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| the time when stone tools and weapons began to be used; divided into two periods: paleolithic and neolithic |
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| the generalized elements that reside in our standard memory of a human head |
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| the period of time that followed the introduction of metalworking |
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| where relative size indicated relative importance |
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| means "the land between the rivers"; located in present day Iraq. |
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| the head of the tribe; a religious figure |
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| a central city, a its surrounding villages, that follow the same law and share the same beliefs. |
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