ARTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Loughcrew, Chauvet Cave, Covering Space
11 Mar 2016
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Trilithon: two upright posts and a lintel placed across/horizontal. Corbeling: simple pile that creates a hut covering space. Paleolithic (old stone age): 38,000-8,000 bce. Mesolithic (middle stone age): 8,000-5,000 bce. Neolithic (new stone age): 5,000-1,500 bce. Earliest forms found in france in a mountain cave. Decorations that cover the walls indicate that the space was important to the people, giving it meaning. Making space meaningful: finding a space and implementing human meaning, physically making the space, the stone age: ca. A common pattern among grave sites on the highest point on a relatively flat land. It is meaningful because we know that it would have been difficult to build and because they have ornamented the stones that surround the grave. They also calculated to an accurate precision the winter solstice sunlight hitting the grave basin at a specific time that tells us they were attuned to the sun and that the burial mound was important.
