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In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in

preliterate, prehistoricalcultures beginning somewhere in

very late geological history, and generally continuing untilthat culture either develops writing or other methods of

record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another

culture that has, and that makes some record of major

historical events. At this point ancient artbegins, for the

older literate cultures. The end-date for what is covered by
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LASCAUX

BHIMBETKA

ALTAMIRA CAVE SPAIN

VENUS OF WILLENDORF


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Lascaux is the setting of a

complex of caves in southwestern

F rance famous for i ts Paleoli thic

cave paintings. The or iginal

caves are located near the vil lage

of Montignac, in the department

of Dordogne.


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The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site of the Paleoli thi c,exhibiti ng the earl iest traces of human l ife on the Indian subconti nent, andthus the beginning of the South Asian Stone Age. I t is located in the Raisen

Distr ict in the Indian state of M adhya Pradesh. The Bhimbetka sheltersexhibit the earl iest traces of human l ife in I ndia. Some of the StoneAge rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters areapproximately 30,000 years old. The caves also del iver early evidenceof dance. They were declared a World Heritage Site in 2003.

The name Bhimbetka is associated with Bhima, a hero-deity of theepic Mahabharata.The wordBhimbetka is said to der ive from Bhimbaithka,

meaning " sitti ng place of Bhima"


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The Cave of Altamira is

a cave in Spain famous

for i ts Upper

Paleoli thic cave

paintings featur ing

drawings and polychrome

rock paintings of wild

mammals and human

hands.


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A civil ization (or civil isation in British Engl ish) most broadly is any complex state

society character ized by a social hierarchy, symboli c communication forms

(typicall y, wri ting systems),and a perceived separati on from and domination over

the natural environment. Civil izations are intimately associated with and often further

def ined by other socio-poli tico-economic character istics, including urbanization (or

the development of cities), centralization, thedomestication of both humans and other

organisms, specialization of labor, cultur all y ingrained ideologies of

progress and supremacism, monumental archi tecture, taxati on, societal dependence

upon agri cultur e, and expansionism.


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Mesopotamia encompasses the land betweenthe Euphrates and Tigri sr i ver s, both of

whi ch have thei r headwater s in the

mountains of Armeni ain modern-day Tur key


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Irrigated agriculture spread southwards from the Zagros foothills with the Samara and

Hadji Muhammed culture, from about 5,000 BC.Sumerian temples functioned as banksand developed the first large-scale system of loans and credit, but the Babylonians

developed the earliest system of commercial banking. It was comparable in some ways

to modern post-Keynesian economics, but with a more "anything goes" approach.


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The cuneiform script proper developed from

pictographic proto-writing in the late 4th millennium

BC. Mesopotamia's "proto-literate" period spans

roughly the 35th to 32nd centuries. The first documents

unequivocally written in the Sumerian language date to

c. the 31st century, found at Jemdet Nasr.


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The ziggurat is the most distinctive form, and cities often

had large gateways, of which the Ishtar Gate from Neo-

Babylonian Babylon, decorated with beasts in polychromebrick, is the most famous, now largely in the Pergamon

Museum in Berlin.


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In the epic, Gilgamesh is a demigod of

superhuman strength who built the citywalls of Uruk to defend his people andtravelled to meet the sage Utnapishtim,

who survived the Great Deluge.According to the Sumerian King List,

Gilgamesh ruled his city for 126 years. Inthe Tummal Inscription,[3] Gilgameshand his son Urlugal rebuilt the sanctuaryof the goddess Ninlil in Tummal, asacred quarter in her city of Nippur.


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In 1927, a seated male soapstonefigure wasfound in a building with unusuallyornamental brickwork and a wall-niche.Though there is no evidencethat priestsor monarchsruled Mohenjo-

daro, archeologists dubbed this dignifiedfigure a "Priest-King." The sculpture is 17.5centimetres (6.9 in) tall and depicts abearded man with a filletaround his head,an armband, and a cloak decoratedwith trefoilpatterns that were originally

filled with red pigment.
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Ancient Egyptwas an ancient civilization of NortheasterAfrica, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile

River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. It isone of six civilizations globally to arise independently.Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC (accordingto conventional Egyptian chronology with the politicalunification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the

first pharaoh


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The shape of the NileRiver Valley resemblesa lotus flower, the ancientEgyptian symbol for the

regeneration of life. Thelong, narrow river valleyis the stem, the delta thatspreads out in the shape

of a triangle is the flower,and Fayyum Region is abud


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The Temple of Edfu is an ancientEgyptian temple located on the west bankof the Nile in the city of Edfu which wasknown in Greco-Roman times asApollonopolis Magna, after the chief

god Horus-Apollo.[1] It is one of the bestpreserved temples in Egypt. The temple,dedicated to the falcon god Horus, wasbuilt in the Ptolemaic period between 237and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its wallsprovide important information on

language, myth and religion duringthe Greco-Roman period in ancient Egypt.


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The stepped pyramid ofKing Zoser, 3rd dynasty,Egypt, was built around2640-2621 BCat Saqqara.

It was designed byImhotep, the first knownarchitect, who was laterdeified by the Egyptians.The pyramid was the first

monumental royal tomband is one of the oldeststone structures in Egypt.


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The Rosetta Stone, found near theEgyptian city of Rosetta by Frenchtroops in 1799, was the key whichunlocked the meaning of ancientEgyptian hieroglyphic writing. Theblack basalt slab was originallyinscribed around 196 BCwith threeparallel inscriptions in hieroglyphics,demotic Egyptian, and Greek, praisingthe Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy V. Bycomparing the three versions of theinscription, scholars were able to

decipher the meaning of thehieroglyphics, thus laying the basis ofmodern Egyptology


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