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... Bronze replaced stone for tools and weapons , casting was invented , and eventually iron and steel were adopted . Pottery became universal , the wheel was de- vised , and large towns were built . Hundreds of sites of ancient settlements ...
... Bronze replaced stone for tools and weapons , casting was invented , and eventually iron and steel were adopted . Pottery became universal , the wheel was de- vised , and large towns were built . Hundreds of sites of ancient settlements ...
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... bronze at Ife in Nigeria in central West Africa came as a total surprise . Ife artists had been thoroughly familiar with the lost - wax process of casting , in which a work is built up on a fireproof core with a thin layer of wax , and ...
... bronze at Ife in Nigeria in central West Africa came as a total surprise . Ife artists had been thoroughly familiar with the lost - wax process of casting , in which a work is built up on a fireproof core with a thin layer of wax , and ...
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... BRONZE AND IRON AGES GENERAL FOX , SIR CYRIL F. , Life and Death in the Bronze Age , Routledge & Kegan Paul , London , 1959 GIMBUTAS , MARIJA A. , Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe , Mouton , The Hague , 1965 MEGAW ...
... BRONZE AND IRON AGES GENERAL FOX , SIR CYRIL F. , Life and Death in the Bronze Age , Routledge & Kegan Paul , London , 1959 GIMBUTAS , MARIJA A. , Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe , Mouton , The Hague , 1965 MEGAW ...
Contents
FOREWORD PAGE | 11 |
Paleolithic Art Old Stone Age 30000 | 26 |
Neolithic Art New Stone Age 8000 | 32 |
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Abbey Church Acropolis ancient angels appear apse arcade Archaeological Museum Archaic arches architect architecture artists Athens B.C. Marble barrel vaults basilica beautiful bronze building built buttresses Byzantine capitals Carolingian carved Çatal Hüyük Cathedral Cathedral of Chartres central century B.C. Chapel choir Christ Classical clerestory colonnade colonnettes color colorplate columns Corinthian decorated dome Doric drapery dynasty earliest Early Christian Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Etruscan façade figures France frescoes frieze gold Gothic Greek groin vaults Hagia Sophia head height Hellenistic Illumination imperial interior Italian Italy king later light limestone Mesopotamia Middle Ages Minoan mosaics Mosque Museo Mycenae nave original ornament Ottonian painter palace panel pediment period piers portal pose Reims relief Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome roof Saint Saqqara scenes sculpture shapes shows side aisles space statues stone structure style surface Temple tion tomb towers tracery tradition Trajan transept vase wall paintings westwork Zeus