Week6

更新中 · 笔记范围：持续补充

European Upper Palaeolithic

  • Homo sapiens -> Europe -> meet Neanderthals

New things in the Upper Palaeolithic

  • Atlatl (spear thrower)
  • Rondelles (disc, non-utilitarian, decorative)

“Venus” Figurines

  • depicting female bodies
  • portable, figurative
  • exaggerated sexual characteristics
  • missing / diminished faces, hands, feet
    -> Clothing, weaving tech
    Some interpretations
  • pornography
  • selfie
  • fertility charm
  • mother goddess
  • beauty

Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art

  • animals

Chauvet, France

Generally shown in Upper Palaeolithic cave art

  • adult terrestrial mammals
  • figurative, representational
  • drawn in profile(side view)
  • most common: horses, bison, deer, ibex, mammoths
    maybe:
  • binary opposites
  • marking territory
  • Graffiti by teenage boys
  • hunting magic