For the EBUS program from Sayre's Discovering the Humanities

1. Wall painting: Horses, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche gorge, France.
ca. 30,000 BCE. Paint on limestone cave wall. Approx. height: 6'.
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Direction Régionale des Affaires
Culturelles de Rhone-Alpes. Service Régional de l’Archéologie. [Fig. 1.1]

2. Map: Major Paleolithic caves in France and Spain.
[Fig. Map 1.1]

3. Map: The Great River Valley Civilizations. ca. 2000 BCE.
[Fig. Map 1.2]

4. Wall painting with bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros,
Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France.
ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE. Paint on limestone cave wall. Approx. length: 9'.
[Fig. 1.2]

5. Woman (Venus of Willendorf), found at Willendorf, Austria.
ca. 24,000-21,000 BCE. Limestone. Height: 4".
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. [Fig. 1.3]

6. Reconstruction of a mammoth-bone house, Mezhirich, Ukraine.
ca. 16,000-10,000 BCE. Mammoth bones.
Kiev Museum of Paleontology, Mezhirich, Ukraine. [Fig. 1.4]

7. Beaker with ibex, dogs, and long-necked birds, from Susa, southwest Iran.
ca. 5000–4000 BCE. Baked clay with painted decoration. Height: 11-1/4".
Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Fig. 1.5]

8. Head, Nok.
ca. 500-200 BCE. Terracotta. Height: 14-3/16".
Werner Forman/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 1.6]

9. Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.
ca. 2750–1500 BCE.
[Fig. 1.7]

10. Durrington Walls in Relation to Stonehenge.
[Fig. Map 1.3]

11. San people. Wall painting: Giraffes, zebra, eland, and abstract shapes, Inanke, Matobo
National Park, Zimbabwe.
Before 1000 CE. Wall painting or rock art.
Photo: Christopher and Sally Gable © Dorling Kindersley. [Fig. 1.8]

12. Anasazi. Cliff dwelling: Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde, Colorado, Anasazi culture.
ca. 1200-1300 CE.
[Fig. 1.9]

13. Anasazi. Diagram: Cribbed roof construction of a kiva at the Spruce Tree House, Mesa
Verde, Colorado, Anasazi culture.
ca. 1200-1300 CE. Sandstone brick, trees.
After a National Park Service pamphlet. [Fig. 1.10]

14. Kachina doll (Maalo). Hopi culture. Late nineteenth century. Wood, pigment, feathers,
fiber, string, 11-1/2 x 2-1/2". Brooklyn Musuem of Art. Museum Expedition 1904,
Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5604. Creative Commons-BY-NC. [Fig. 1.11]

15. Shinto. Naiku (Inner) Shrine housing Amaterasu, Ise, Japan (periodically reconstructed).
Late 5th-early 6th century CE. Wood beams, thatched roof.
[Fig. 1.12]

16. The ziggurat at Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq). ca. 2100 BCE. Mud brick.
[Fig. 1.13]

17. Reconstruction drawing of the ziggurat at Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq).
ca. 2100 BCE.
[Fig. 1.14]

18. Sumerian. Dedicatory statues, from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar, Iraq.
ca. 2900-2700 BCE.
Marble, alabaster, and gypsum. Tallest figure approx. 30" high.
Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. [Fig. 1.15]

19. Map: Major Mesopatamian capitals. ca. 2600-500 BCE.
[Fig. Map 1.4]

20. Sumerian. Royal Standard of Ur, front (“War”) side, from tomb 779, cemetery at Ur
(modern Muqaiyir, Iraq).
ca. 2600 BCE. Shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone, originally on a wooden framework.
Height: 8". Length: 19".
© The Trustees of The British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 1.16a]

21. Sumerian. Royal Standard of Ur, back (“Peace”) side, from tomb 779, cemetery at Ur
(modern Muqaiyir, Iraq).
ca. 2600 BCE. Shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone, originally on a wooden framework.
Height: 8". Length: 19".
© The Trustees of The British Museum/Art Resource, NY. [Fig. 1.16b]

22. Akkadian. Head of an Akkadian Man, from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq).
ca. 2300-2200 BCE. Copper alloy. Height: 14-1/8".
Iraq Museum, Baghdad. [Fig. 1.17]

23. Babylonian. Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa (modern Shush, Iran).
ca. 1760 BCE. Diorite. Height of stele: approx. 7'. Height of relief: 28".
Musée du Louvre, Paris. [Fig. 1.18]

24. Hebrew. Mosaic floor decorations: The Ark of the Covenant and sanctuary implements.
From Hammath, near Tiberias, Israel.
Fourth century CE. Mosaic.
Radovan/www.BibleLandPictures.com. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem. [Fig. 1.19]

25. Map: The United Monarchy of Israel under David and Solomon.
ca. 1000 BCE.
[Fig. Map 1.5]

26. Persian. Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute. Detail, relief from a stairway leading to the
Apadana, ceremonial complex, Persepolis, Iran.
491-486 BCE. Limestone, originally painted & gilded. Height: 8' 4".
Iranbastan Museum, Teheran. [Fig. 1.20']

27. Egyptian. The pyramids of Menkaure (ca. 2470 BCE), Khafre (ca. 2500 BCE), and Khufu
(ca. 2530 BCE). 2530-2470 BCE.
[Fig. 1.21]

28. Map: Nile River Basin, with archeological sites in relation to modern Cairo.
[Fig. Map 1.6]

29. Egyptian. Nebamun Hunting Birds, from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes.
Dynasty 18, ca. 1400 BCE. Fresco on dry plaster. Height: approx. 2' 8".
The British Museum, London. [Fig. 1.22]

30. Chart: Some of the Principal Egyptian Gods (with color drawings).
[Fig. Table 1.1]

31. Egyptian. Menkaure with a Queen, probably Khamerernebty, from valley temple of
Menkaure, Giza.
Dynasty 4, ca. 2460 BCE. Schist. Height: 54-1/4".
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1.1738.
Photograph © 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [Fig. 1.23]

32. Egyptian. Palette of Narmer (verso). From Hierakonpolis.
Dynasty 1, ca. 3000 BCE. Schist. Height: 25-1/4".
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. [Fig. 1-CL.1]

33. Egyptian. Palette of Narmer (recto). From Hierakonpolis.
Dynasty 1, ca. 3000 BCE. Schist. Height: 25-1/4".
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. [Fig. 1-CL.2]

34. Egyptian. Akhenaten and His Family, from Akhetaten (modern Tell el-Amarna).
Dynasty 18, ca. 1345 BCE. Painted limestone relief. 12-3/4" x 14-7/8".
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ägyptisches Museum. [Fig. 1.24]

35. Egyptian. Funerary mask of Tutankhamun.
Dynasty 18, ca. 1327 BCE. Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones.
Height: 21-1/4".
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. [Fig. 1.25]

36. Egyptian. Montuemhet, from Karnak, Thebes. Granite, height 54".
ca. 660 BCE. Granite. Height: 54".
Egyptian Museum, Cairo. [Fig. 1.26]

37. Greek. Anavysos Kuoros, from Anavysos cemetary, near Athens.
ca. 525 BCE. Height: 6' 4".
National Archaeological Museum, Athens. [Fig. 1.27]

38. Polyclitus. Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Roman copy after the original bronze.
ca. 450-440 BCE. Marble (after bronze original). Height: 6' 6".
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. [Fig. 1.28]