Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts

December 01, 2020

#08-017: Ancient Art or Early Doodle?

This is claimed to be the "the earliest known drawing in history"--73,000 years old!
(Wikipedia)


Note: Not so long ago, if you had asked experts in paleoanthropology about the oldest prehistoric art, they might have pointed to cave sites in Spain and France, or to others in Indonesia, dating to 35,000 to 45,000 years ago. But in recent decades, discoveries of ancient art have pushed back the timeline of our ancestors' creative impulse by tens of thousands of years.


Get Ready: What is the oldest human-made thing (a building, some art, a piece of furniture) you have ever seen? Are you interested in ancient things made by human hands?


June 02, 2015

#04-026: The Artists of Pompeii

brightly-colored wall fresco of numerous figures embracing; one seems to have wings like an angel
Fresco from the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii
(Wikipedia)

Note: The eruption that killed Pliny also destroyed several towns, incidentally preserving their art for us to enjoy today.


Get Ready: Are you very familiar with the collection of a particular museum? If so, which one? If not, is there one you would like to visit repeatedly?