Unit 2 - Prehistory - Art of the Neolithic and the Age of Metals
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ROCK PAINTING
Schematic
Symbols, people, hunting scenes, dances
Religious meaning.
Çatalhöyük (Turkey)
POTTERYFirst with geometrical inscriptions,
and later also painted
MEGALITHIC ART
Religious meaning worshipping the sun, celebrate solstices and equinoxes, tombs, etc. Mega Great, large
Lithos Stone
MENHIRBig stone standing vertically on the floor.
ALIGNMENTMenhirs arranged in lines
CROMLECHMenhirs arranged in circles
STONEHENGESalisbury
(United Kingdom)
3rd millennium BCE
Solar cults Summer solstice
DOLMENSeveral vertical stones holding a flat horizontal stone