Lascaux-Clovis Flashcards
Estimated year of Lascaux Cave paintings
15,000 B.C.
Artist who said of the cave painters “They’ve invented everything”
Picasso
Who “discovered” the caves in the 1940’s?
Robot the dog
What do the caves indicate about the knowledge the people who painted them had?
Language of signs, perspective, techniques not rediscovered until Athens, scaffolds, grease lamps, the principles of stenciling and Pointillism, pigments that would last 30, 000 years, and even animation!
Of what did the paintings portray?
No evolution in subject (bison, stages, aurochs, ibex, horses, mammoths) or technique over time
Years of the Neolithic Revolution (New Stone Age)
4,000-2,500 BC- agriculture, houses,villages, the wheel, forged and cast metals, menhirs and dolmens
Celtic domination in Gaul (years)
2,500-50 BC (Marseilles founded in 600 BC)
58-51 BC Julius Caesar invades Gaul and conquers who & in what year exactly?
52 BC Versingétorix defeated at Alésia
also 52 BC Lutetia (Paris) is built on an island in the Seine
50 BC-476 AD Roman Period in Gaul brought what?
Construction of Aquaducts, roads, slow diffusion of Christianity
485 AD Merovingian Period, who becomes first King?
Clovis, first Merovingian King of the Franks
How is Clovis made King? In what special manner?
“Chosen” by God, anointed with special dove brought creamy oil in ceremony performed
Describe Celtic Gaul
Druids “le très savant”
Beer “ jus fétide d’orge pourri”
Bold Warriors
Experts in agriculture, ship carpentry, barrel making, metal working, pottery
Number of words still used today from Gaul?
about 70
