ART 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fertile Crescent, Woodhenge, Ur
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About 9,000 bce, the ice that covered most of northern. After transitional period neolithic age began, at different times in different places. The skull was found buried under dwellings and kept. Skulls of their ancestors were kept as an album of sorts. Megalithic architecture: post and lintel construction post are the vertical supports. Lintel are the beams that go across the posts. Had to carve the stones so the lintel pieces could rest on the posts. (cid:498)woodhenge(cid:499), ca. 3,(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882) bce, durrington walls- a mile from stonehenge; site 1500 ft. across. (below) Puma punku, peru: bekaa valley, lebanon-largest single stone. Civilization develops in mesopotamia along the tigris and euphrates rivers in a valley area that has been called (cid:498)the fertile crescent(cid:499). The finest marble and alabaster can be found in. Nanna ziggurat, ur (modern muqaiyir, iraq: 2,100- 2,050 bce. Built with mud brick and dedicated to the moon god nanna. The statues were for worship to their gods and goddesses.
