HI285 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hopewell Tradition, Pictogram, Japanese Writing System
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Hopewell culture native american culture in 100 bce-500 bce. Many of their works had religious significance and graves were filled with necklaces, ornate carvings made from bone or wood, decorated ceremonial pottery, ear plugs, and pendants. Hopewell produced artwork in greater variety and with more exotic materials than the adena. Raven effigy pipe created by adena during the hopewell period. Created to capture a connection between the divine and human experience. Pottery wheel used to create pottery, earliest forms were tourneys or slow wheels. First potter"s wheel was probably created in mesopotamia by sumerians. Goddess with horns naturalistic image of a goddess from north africa in 4000 bce. Filled with movement, but also monumental as she was very large. Petroglyph carved or incised image into a rock surface. Moche pre-historic culture based in peru, they had no writing system but were master metalworkers making gold, silver, and copper ornaments.
