Ice Age art-life and death
Overview of Ice Age art and how it might relate to the lives of the people of the time.
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- Created on: 03-02-16 13:01
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- Ice Age art-life and death
- Venus figurines
- Mainly in 24-000-26,000 BC
- Made from mammoth ivory and soft stone
- Highly emphasize buttocks, hips and breasts.
- Can be covered in ochre
- Theories of usage
- Magic related to promoting successful childbirth?
- Self-expression of pregnant women (proposed by LeRoy McDermott 1996)
- Generalised notion of womanhood.
- Protective goddess?
- Example sites
- Gonnersdorf-figures found on slate slabs
- Willendorf figurine
- 11.1cm tall
- 28,000-25,000 BC
- Carved from non local oolitic limestone
- Evidence of trade?
- Tinted with red ochre
- Venus of Laussel
- 18.11 inch high
- Limestone bas-relief
- Red ochre used again.
- Around 25,000 years old.
- Holds a bison horn with 13 notches-number of menstrual cycles in a year?
- Has a 'Y' on her thigh.
- Venus of Brassempuoy
- Ivory head of a presumed female figure(although not actually sexed in anyway) dating to around 26,000-24,000 years BP.
- One of earliest representations of the human face.
- 3.65 cm high, 2.2 cm deep, 1.9 cm wide.
- Absence of a mouth
- Pattern on head made using small perpendicular incisions.
- Many interpretations.
- Hair
- Wig
- A hood
- Many interpretations.
- Ivory head of a presumed female figure(although not actually sexed in anyway) dating to around 26,000-24,000 years BP.
- Bison of La Maeleine could just fir into period-estimated between 20,000 and 12,000BP.
- Carved in Antler-depicts bison licking itself.
- Lion-man from Holhlenstein-stadel
- Ivory sculpture. Oldest known zoomorphic sculpture in the world
- Ivory from woolly mammoth
- C14 dating of the layer it was found in places it at about 40,000 years old.
- 29.6 cm tall, 5.6cm wide and 5.9cm thick.
- Seven parallel gouges in left arm
- Different interpretations of its supposed gender.
- Although older than cave paintings found in France shares some similarities of depictions of hybrid creatures. Combination of animal and man again-shamanism?
- Possible precursor of cave painting?
- After discovery a similar but smaller lion-headed figure found in nearby cave with other figurines and lutes.
- Possible mythological function in society of the time?
- Ivory sculpture. Oldest known zoomorphic sculpture in the world
- Marks on bones found at Tossa de la Rocca in Spain have been suggested to represent the moon's phases-acting like a lunar calnedar?
- Theories of usage
- Magic related to promoting successful childbirth?
- Self-expression of pregnant women (proposed by LeRoy McDermott 1996)
- Generalised notion of womanhood.
- Protective goddess?
- Theories of usage
- Venus figurines
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