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Prehistory art:

Cueva de las Manos

Who did: the ancestors of the Tehuelche culture

Period: prehistory between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago

Local: in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina

Period characterist:
.People were hunters
.Small(he just used his hands and bones)
.Art was figurative(animals, humans, hands)
. Cave paintings were lifelike, proportional

Interesting points:
. The cave wall’s have pictures of hunt, animals, humans and geometric figures, and those show differents
strategy to capture and let evidence that “Guanaco” was one of their favorite animals.
. Archaeologists say that painter put his left hand in the wall since they used his right hand to hold the bones that
sneezed the ink.

https://www.touropia.com/prehistoric-cave-paintings/
Ancient egyptian art:

Narmer's Palette:

Who did: Some egypician

Period: 31st century BC (XXXI)


Local: Main Deposit in the Temple of Horus at Nekhen
Period characteristic:
.The upper body is depicted from the front and the legs face in the same direction as the head with one foot in
front of the other
. Heavily influenced by everyday life, especially religion and life after death
Interesting points:
.It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found

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