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[https://artincontext.org/prehistoric-art/ by Isabella Meyer 19/11/21 ART IN CONTEXT] | [https://artincontext.org/prehistoric-art/ by Isabella Meyer 19/11/21 ART IN CONTEXT] | ||
Prehistoric artists recorded their daily experiences in mediums that have managed to make it through centuries of harsh exposure to changing environmental conditions, giving us detailed insights into what life was like in the earliest days of our species before the development of a written form of communication. | Prehistoric artists recorded their daily experiences in mediums that have managed to make it through centuries of harsh exposure to changing environmental conditions, giving us detailed insights into what life was like in the earliest days of our species before the development of a written form of communication. | ||
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[https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/prehistoric art by UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD] | |||
The archaeology of ancient art has much to offer for our understanding of visual culture in past societies, with a record rich with material that opens up new ways of thinking about the environment, nature, the body and the non-human world. Such an approach can lead us to consider how art (as we define it in the present day) shaped past lifeways with archaeological evidence that indicates representation, relationships and identities were expressed through image-making. | |||
