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[https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/frank-davis-memorial-lecture-series/the-arts-of-pre-colonial-africa/ by Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2019 The Courtauld] | [https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/frank-davis-memorial-lecture-series/the-arts-of-pre-colonial-africa/ by Frank Davis Memorial Lectures 2019 The Courtauld] | ||
The 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Series invited four distinguished speakers to share new research in African art before the continent-wide colonialisation of the nineteenth century. Looking at the African material on its own terms rather than in light of Europe while also allowing us to understand the intercontinental and wider networks: the ways in which its various kingdoms centred themselves and connected with cultural worlds beyond. | The 2019 Frank Davis Memorial Series invited four distinguished speakers to share new research in African art before the continent-wide colonialisation of the nineteenth century. Looking at the African material on its own terms rather than in light of Europe while also allowing us to understand the intercontinental and wider networks: the ways in which its various kingdoms centred themselves and connected with cultural worlds beyond. | ||
=====African Art – Looking at African Artwork from Early Humankind to Today===== | |||
[https://artincontext.org/african-art/ by Chrisél Attewell 26/8/21 ART IN CONTEXT] | |||
Various fossils were unearthed at the Sterkfontein Caves, importantly the skull of an early human that has been named “Mrs. Ples”, found by John T. Robinson and Robert Broom in 1947. The skull is estimated to be over two million years old, and while it was thought to be a woman at first, some scientists have speculated that it was a male. | |||
