Texas A & M Commerce Art History Survey 1 Class, 1303.003, Holly Stevens, Wathena Temple

1. Week 2 September 8th

2. Sabre tooth tigers (two different types) did exist in Germany (all of Europe, actually) until roughly 12,000 years ago. These tigers would have been around when the work of art to the right was created. Additionally, there was a sabre toothed hyenas and cave lions roaming the area. Cave lions were 25% bigger than our modern day lions. "What our genetic evidence shows is that these ancient extinct lions and the lions of today were very closely related. Meanwhile, cave art suggests that they formed prides, although the males appear not to have had manes.“ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5077393/Super-sized-lions-roamed-UK-in-ice-age.html Reading for Monday: Chapter 3, Egypt http://www.slideshare.net/stevensholly/week-1-8-30-and-91

7. Catal Huyuk (Catal Hoyuk) 8000 – 6000 bce

16. Birthplace of Abraham?

21. http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/dbfiles/Iraqdatabasehome.htm

23. Cuneiform Writing 3200 bce

26. 3200 Cuneiform Not long after, Egyptian hieroglyphics

27. Epic of Gilgamesh – written approximately 650 bc about a real king that lived c. 2700 bc Fragments of the story date to 2000 bc.

29. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets2/case2.html

30. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_stonehenge