Chapter 5, Art of the Stone Age, 08 — Transcript

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1. 0:00we also see plastered skulls at another
2. 0:03neolithic site cuttle hayek it is
3. 0:06remarkable for its extensive decoration
4. 0:09which consists not just of linear and
5. 0:12geometric motifs but representations of
6. 0:15animals humans and even what has been
7. 0:19called world's first landscape painting
8. 0:22seen here originally this painting was
9. 0:26created on the plastered interior wall
10. 0:29of a house though it has since been
11. 0:31moved to this museum below the framed
12. 0:35fragments you can see a watercolour
13. 0:38drawing that makes the elements clearer
14. 0:41in one of the experimental houses at the
15. 0:45cattle hayek site designed to allow
16. 0:48researchers and visitors to more fully
17. 0:50understand what these Neolithic
18. 0:53dwellings were like when they were first
19. 0:56created the same motif decorates the
20. 0:59wall scholars still debate precisely
21. 1:03what is being shown in the original
22. 1:05painting but one compelling explanation
23. 1:10is that it shows the layout of the city
24. 1:13itself with its rectangular houses
25. 1:16arranged closely together along
26. 1:19relatively straight lines behind them
27. 1:22rise the twin peaks of Hassan da Jie
28. 1:25possibly mid eruption there are no
29. 1:29humans or animals shown just a
30. 1:31representation of the city in its
31. 1:34natural context we do however have art
32. 1:38elsewhere in catal hoyuk
33. 1:39that does show animals and humans
34. 1:42including apparently interacting with
35. 1:45each other as in this deer hunt scene
36. 1:49let's in this unit with one more journal
37. 1:52type question take a moment to compare
38. 1:55this and the other Neolithic wall
39. 1:59paintings from catal hoyuk with the
40. 2:02Paleolithic cave paintings we studied
41. 2:05earlier what's similar and what's dead
42. 2:11[Applause]