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Prehistoric art
Course: Prehistoric art > Unit 2
Lesson 3: Neolithic sites- Jericho
- Çatalhöyük
- Newgrange, a prehistoric tomb in Ireland
- Stonehenge
- Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (UNESCO/NHK)
- Nuragic architecture at Su Nuraxi Barumini, Sardinia
- Running horned woman, Tassili n’Ajjer
- Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (UNESCO/NHK)
- Rock-art sites of Tadrart Acacus: backstory
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Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus (UNESCO/NHK)
On the borders of Tassili N'Ajjer in Algeria, also a World Heritage site, this rocky massif has thousands of cave paintings in very different styles, dating from 12,000 B.C. to A.D. 100. They reflect marked changes in the fauna and flora, and also the different ways of life of the populations that succeeded one another in this region of the Sahara. Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai URL: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/287/.
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What kind of dye did they use to draw? Or did they just carve on the hill?(3 votes)
Nearly all the colours used by Paleolithic artists are founded on mineral oxide (either iron or manganese) or carbon (mostly charcoal). Thus their limited palette was produced from three primary colours: red, black and yellow. Blacks were derived from manganese ores and charcoal; the reds, yellows, and browns came from limonites and hematites (ochres and siennas), in a range from reddish brown to straw colour. Tones of red-violet were probably a result of natural peroxide of iron transformed slowly and naturally into violet oxide. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/artist-paints/prehistoric-colour-palette.htm#africa(2 votes)
How did the sahara become a desert?(2 votes)- For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000-year cycle caused by the precession of Earth's axis as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African monsoon. ( Chu, Jennifer (2 January 2019). "A "pacemaker" for North African climate". MIT News.)(2 votes)
انا محتاجه الدورات باللغه العربيه .هل هي متاحه؟(2 votes)
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why is on the unesco endangered list(2 votes)- UNESCO State of Conservation (SOC) reports from 2011, 2012 and 2013 show that at least ten of the rock-art sites have been the object of deliberate and considerable destruction since at least April 2009.[10] The ambiguity surrounding property boundaries of the World Heritate Site and therefore the property management combined with lack of local understanding of its cultural values were contributing factors in the ongoing vandalism. Conflicts in the area since 2011 led to increased vandalism.[9]
In May 2013 UNESCO undertook a technical mission to assess the state of conservation the Tadrart Acacus site and to "build-up a strategic plan to enforce the protection and management of this unique cultural and natural context."[11]
On 14 April 2014 two kinds of vandals were reported, those who thoughtlessly carve their own names beside the ancient rock art and those who deliberately use chemical products to remove the rock drawings.[1 On April 20, 2014, the French special correspondent Jacques-Marie Bourget (fr) was informed by a local journalist from Ghat, Libya, Aziz Al-Hachi, that the UNESCO Rock-Art World Heritage Site of Tadrart Acacus was being destroyed with sledgehammers and scrub brushes.[13][14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadrart_Acacus#Deliberate_and_destructive_vandalism2](1 vote)
how do archeologists know that painting was painted 5000 years ago and the other 4000 years ago ?(1 vote)- From the earlier article on the Rock Art of North Africa,
"Scholars have estimated the earliest art to date to 12,000 or more years ago, yet despite the use of both direct and indirect dating techniques very few firm dates exist (“direct dating” uses measurable physical and chemical analysis, such as radiocarbon dating, while “indirect dating” primarily uses associations from the archaeological context). In the north, where rock art tends to be quite diverse, research has focused on providing detailed descriptions of the art and placing works in chronological sequence based on style and content. This ordering approach results in useful classification and dating systems, dividing the Tassili paintings and engravings into periods of concurrent and overlapping traditions (the Running Horned Woman is estimated to date to approximately 6,000 to 4,000 B.C.E.—placing it within the "Round Head Period").(2 votes)
- Was there other evidence of people there, bones found?(1 vote)
why are two cats or lions on that rock(1 vote)