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The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, consists of two settlement mounds — the remains of houses continually built over old ones — that have yielded many treasures since archaeologists began excavations in the 1960s.

Здесь рассматриваются далеко не все стороны языческого мировоззрения восточных славян. Это — тема специального исследования (Рыбаков В. А., 1974, с. 3—30). Мы затрагиваем лишь отдельные вопросы славянского язычества, решение которых непосредственно связано с изучением остатков материальной культуры

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The development of civilization was a long and complex process, and it always rested on industry and technology. As our ancestors stepped from one millennium to another, and the Stone Age evolved further and further...

Jiroft artifact, Persia, 3000 BC Throughout the history of antiquity there have been numerous instances where art has interacted with ancient discoveries to forge new art trends and revitalize established arts. From the middle of the 8th century BC, the developing eastern trade connections led to an Orientalising of the Greek decoration of the ceramic arts with new subjects being introduced including palmettes, lions, panthers, rosettes, lotus flowers and the tree of life. Corinth developed its distinctive style with the appropriation of stylised plants and animals and curvaceous flora and fauna began replacing the geometric styles. Greek art

dogu which is flat like a board. Jomon-era

Although Mehrgarh was abandoned by the time of the emergence of the literate urbanized phase of the Indus Civilization, its development illustrates the development of the civilization’s subsistence…

What is it? This statuette, dating from around 21,000 BC, has the familiar form of a Palaeolithic ‘Venus’ figurine. Carved out of chalk and standing to a height of 4cm, the female figure has the prominent, fleshy thighs, buttocks, and breasts typical of these works from a late phase of the Gravettian culture (28,000-22,000 years ago). The face is undistinguishable and the arms barely there, but more clearly defined features include the figure’s navel and her hair, or headwear, marked out by a grid-like arrangement of thin incised lines. A similar series of lines on the head is seen in

Period: Middle Elamite. Date: ca. 1500–1100 B.C.. Geography: Iran, possibly from Susa. Culture: Elamite. Medium: Ceramic. Dimensions: 7 3/16 × 2 3/8 × 1...

Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, in his book Proserpina, calls himself “the gentle and happy scholar of flowers”. A large part of his work is an attempt to connect nature, art and society. To prove this, he attempted to show that species can and do symbolize the ethical qualities of mankind, representing man’s states of good and evil, as well as the timeless human belief of destruction or redemption.

Obsessed with a treasure city, conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa. To spare his life, the emperor offered up the largest cache of gold the Spanish ever acquired in the Americas.

THE ARCHAIC PERIOD The term Archaic was coined in the 18th century by art historians in order to describe the […]

The Danube Valley civilization is one of the oldest civilizations known in Europe. It existed from between 5,500 and 3,500 BC in the Balkans and covered a vast area, in what is now Northern Greece to Slovakia (South to North), and Croatia to Romania (West to East).

Originali e repliche di tre raccolte propulsori, statuette di Veneri paleolitiche e animali, incisioni su osso, avorio e pietra antropomorfe e zoomorfe.

Taş Devri Ana Tanrıça İnanışı ve Venüs Heykelcikleri: Berekhat Ram, Willendorf ve Laussel Venüsü

Aboriginal cave painting Australia

The aim of this article is to assist readers in identifying if their aboriginal bark painting is by Yirawala. It compares different examples