Art History Chapter 1

15,000-13,000 BCE Largest bull 11'6" long

30,000-28,000 BCE Mammoth Ivory 11 5/8" tall one of the oldest know ivory sculptures. composite creature or human wearing an animal mask?

1 1/2" high made of ivory 25,000-20,000 BCE

25,000-20,000 BCE Painted limestone 1'6" high One of the oldest known relief sculptures depicts a woman who holds a bison horn and left arm draws attention to her belly.

15,000-10,000 BCE Clay right bison 2' 7/8" long Built using a stone spatula-like smoothing tool and fingers to shape the details.

12,000 BCE Reindeer horn 4 1/8" long Sculptor turned the bison's head a full 180 degrees to maintain the profile view and incised the details with a stone burin.

13,000-11,000 BCE Standing bison 5' 2.5" long no ground line or indication of setting. sole concern was to represent the animals not to locate them in a specific place.

23,000-22,000 BCE 11' 2" long Purpose and Meaning unknown. think the painted hands near the Pech-Merle horses are "signatures" of community members or of individual painters.

30,000-28,000 BCE or 15,000-13,000 BCE Right rhinoceros 3' 4"long They exhibit surprisingly advanced features, such as overlapping animal horns.

16,000-14,000 BCE Bison 3' 4 1/2" long Constitute the earliest example of narrative art ever discovered.

16,000-14,000 BCE 4' 11" long

8,000-7,000 BCE Protecting Neolithic Jericho were 5' thick walls and at least one tower 30' high and 33' in diameter contructed of stone laid without mortar

7200-6700BCE Modeled in plaster, painted, and inlaid with seashells. Life-size. Farmers removed the skulls of their dead before burial, modeled them in plaster, and inlaid the eyes to create lifelike "portraits" of their ancestors.

6750-6250 BCE. Plaster, painted and inlaid with bitumen 3' 5 3/8" high the dozens found are earliest large-scale sculptures known.

5750 BCE Painter depicted human figures as a composite of frontal and profile views, the most descriptive picture of the shape of the human body. became the rule for millennia.

6000-5900 BCE Houses in the early city adjoined with one another and had no doors. Openings in the roof provided access to the interiors.

6150 BCE detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting from level VII. First known landscape painting in which neither humans nor animals appear.

3200-2500 BCE Early example of corbeled vaulting.

3200-2500 BCE Neolithic builders incorporated both rectilinear and curved forms.

2550-1600 BCE Circle 97' in diameter trilithons 24' high trilithons probably functioned as an astronomical observatory and solar calendar. Some of the megaliths weigh 50 tons.

23,000 BCE charcoal on stone 4 1/4" X 5"

28,000-25,000 BCE Limestone 4 1/4" high typical of Paleolithic representations of women, whose child-bearing capabilities ensured the survival of the species.

3,000,000 BCE reddish-brown jasperite 2 3/8" wide Stone is not an artwork because it was neither manufactured nor modified.