Lion Man Research Paper

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The Lion Man is the oldest known work of figurative art, it depicts a human and a lion morphed into one. This foot tall figurine has been reliably dated to before 40,000 BCE. A master craftsman, an artist and visionary, carved this artefact from the right tusk of a mammoth and using flint tools fashioned this most glorious of treasures from our deep history. The people who created this figurine lived in the Swabian Alb, southern Germany and are believed to be the common ancestors of most fellow humans alive. To some the Lion Man is sacred, to many the figurine represents the first proof positive of the arrival of the modern mind. The age of the Lion Man tells us that the lions with which its makers shared their habitat were European cave lions. …show more content…
40,000 BP develops the term ‘Aurignacian’ who first appeared in eastern Europe and gradually moved westwards. They were hunter-gatherers identified by their advanced tool making and highly sophisticated figurative art. Their range extended throughout almost all of sub-glacial Europe and appears to have remained culturally consistent in many respects over a period of 15-20,000 years. The Aurignacians made breakthroughs and are pioneers in art making. Some experts believe that the rapid breakthroughs in tool making technology, after many thousands of years without progress, indicate the appearance of complexity from the Aurignacians.
Gabriel Orozco’s Asterisms, is a two-part sculptural and photographic installation comprising thousands of items of detritus the artist has gathered at two sites—a playing field near his home in New York and a protected coastal biosphere in Baja California Sur, Mexico, that is also the repository for flows of industrial and commercial waste from across the Pacific Ocean. He created a large sculptural installation from the refuse he discovered—including glass bottles, light bulbs, buoys, tools, stones, and oars—by subjecting it to taxonomic arrangements on the gallery