Neolithic art

Photo about Prehistoric Neolithic African rock art from the Northern Cape showing a hunting scene. Image of mammoth, antiquity, civilisations - 14234865

Geometric motifs and symbols of ancient rock art, cave paintings and rock engravings such as the spiral found at Brú na Bóinne, and the kerbstones of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, in relation to the anatomical and neurophysiological characteristics of the human visual cortex. This neurophysiological approach will test the 'universality' hypothesis, and universals, and introduce the concept of 'neuro-aesthetics'. Comparing Irish megalithic motifs and hallucinations.

The ancient Celts had many symbols, many of them revolved around a three-fold theme. Triskelion Celtic symbol meaning is a trinity of themes like: Mind, body, spirit for example. There are other meanings for each of the three branches of the triskelion. Check out the history and meaning of the triskelion symbol here.

Stone glyphs in Greenland.

The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, consists of two settlement mounds — the remains of houses continually built over old ones — that have yielded many treasures since archaeologists began excavations in the 1960s.

Jar (Guan) Neolithic period, Majiayao culture (ca.3300-2050 BC) Machang phase,ca.2350-2050 BC. Culture:China. Earthenware with pigment H.31.5 cm W. 23.5 cm Diam. of rim 3.8 cm Diam. of base 9.8 cm Classification: Ceramics Accession Number: 1992.165.8. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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