Week 2

September 8th

Sabre tooth tigers (two different types) did exist in Germany (all of Europe, actually) until roughly 12,000 years ago. These tigers would have been around when the work of art to the right was created. Additionally, there was a sabre toothed hyenas and cave lions roaming the area. Cave lions were 25% bigger than our modern day lions."What our genetic evidence shows is that these ancient extinct lions and the lions of today were very closely related. Meanwhile, cave art suggests that they formed prides, although the males appear not to have had manes.“

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5077393/Super-sized-lions-roamed-UK-in-ice-age.html

Reading for Monday: Chapter 3, Egypt

http://www.slideshare.net/stevensholly/week-1-8-30-and-91

Quiz

1.Your book discusses a recent cave discovery (1995); these caves have been identified as being datable to 30,000 – 28,000 bce, making them much older than the caves presented in class. What is the name of these caves? a. Chauvet b. Altamira c. Pech-Merle d. Lascaux

2.“Paleolithic” means ‘old stone age’. True False

3.The reason why the cave paintings and the Woman of Willendorf were presented in class is because they are extremely rare. Very few examples of cave paintings and female statuettes are known to exist. True False

4.Chapter 2 of your book, the assigned reading for this week, covers Ancient Egypt. True False

5.Cave paintings often represent: a. Wild animals b. Domesticated animals c. Humans d. All of these things

6.“Prehistoric” means: a. before the last ice age b. before the written word c. before any art was created d. before the Bible was written

Catal Huyuk

(Catal Hoyuk)

8000 – 6000 bce

Birthplace of Abraham?

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/Iraqdatabasehome.htm

Cuneiform Writing

3200 bce

3200 CuneiformNot long after, Egyptian hieroglyphics

Epic of Gilgamesh – written approximately 650 bc about a real king that lived c. 2700 bc

Fragments of the story date to 2000 bc.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets2/case2.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_stonehenge