Chapter 1: Prehistory and Near Eastern Civilization


Search and evaluate the following (affective reactions only):

Cave paintings - Upper Paleolithic or Stone Age period
 

http://colophon.com/gallery/minsky/caves.htm - Cave Paintings.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cave.html- Few pictures of cave paintings

To view the larger image of the cave paintings go to view image list

Then choose which painting that you would like to see and then click on the image viewer in the caption.
 

Mesopotamia
 

                   http://www.crystalinks.com/ziggurat.html - The Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
 

Egyptian (Some of the following can be found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/ )
 

The Luxor

The Temple of Amun- this site has some interesting pictures and some good readings

    This has a few pictures of the temple halls and some of the column work

        Luxor Temple Pictures - Type Luxor under search. This will provide you with many link options.

         http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Temple_at_Luxor.html

The Step Pyramid (first to be built entirely from stone)

The Giza Pyramid

The Valley of Kings (see the burial chamber paintings or any other two (2) paintings - use objective terms)

The Egyptian columns (The Temple of Amun)

Egyptian Pottery

        How they made pottery  - see the following:
 

statues - evaluate using two terms
pottery - observe only
read text on Egyptian art

http://guardians.net/hawass/statues_giza.htm  - statues

http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/egpage.htm- numerous links; NOTE: all of the links for The Detroit Institute of Arts are dead