Portable art, the Glossary
Portable art (sometimes called mobiliary art) refers to the small examples of Prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place, which is especially characteristic of the Art of the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic eras.[1]
Table of Contents
19 relations: Apollo 11 Cave, Art of the Upper Paleolithic, Blombos Cave, Cave painting, Chauvet Cave, Eurasia, Gabarnmung, Klasies River Caves, Lascaux, Mesolithic, Neschers, Prehistoric art, Radiocarbon dating, Rock art, Shapeshifting, South Africa, Stratigraphy, Swabian Jura, Venus figurine.
Apollo 11 Cave
The Apollo 11 Cave is an archeological site in the ǀAi-ǀAis/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park of south-western Namibia, approximately southwest of Keetmanshoop.
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Art of the Upper Paleolithic
The art of the Upper Paleolithic represents the oldest form of prehistoric art. Portable art and art of the Upper Paleolithic are prehistoric art.
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Blombos Cave
Blombos Cave is an archaeological site located in Blombos Private Nature Reserve, about 300 km east of Cape Town on the Southern Cape coastline, South Africa.
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Cave painting
In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
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Chauvet Cave
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc) in the Ardèche department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Gabarnmung
Gabarnmung (or Nawarla Gabarnmung, Jawoyn for "(place of) hole in the rock") is an archaeological and rock art site in south-western Arnhem Land, in the Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory.
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Klasies River Caves
The Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located east of the Klasies River Mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
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Lascaux
Lascaux (Grotte de Lascaux, "Lascaux Cave") is a network of caves near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France.
Mesolithic
The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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Neschers
Neschers is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.
Prehistoric art
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Rock art
In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. Portable art and rock art are prehistoric art.
Shapeshifting
In mythology, folklore, and speculative fiction, shapeshifting is the ability to physically transform oneself through unnatural means.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).
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Swabian Jura
The Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb, more rarely Schwäbischer Jura), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.
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Venus figurine
A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Portable art and Venus figurine are prehistoric art.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_art
Also known as Mobiliary art.