LA121 Chpt 1 pres

Magic, Myth, and Nature:
Landscapes of Prehistoric, Early Ancient
and Contemporary Peoples

Where are we? How was the world
created, and what is the place and
state of human beings within the
contexts of space and time?

Genius loci: spirit of place
Collective Unconscious: an
inherited collective, universal, and
impersonal psyche which is
identical in all individuals.

Lion Panel, Chauvet Cave, France. 30,000 B.C.E.

Caves at Lascaux, Dordogne France, 15,000 B.C.E.

Megaliths, Carnac, France, 3,000 B.C.E.

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England 2500 BCE

Stonehenge,
Wiltshire, England
2500 BCE

Woodhenge, Cahokia, Illinois. 1100 - Woodhenge, 2004
1200 C.E. Painting

Woodhenge, Cahokia, Illinois. 100 - 400 BCE

Newark Earthworks,
Newark, Ohio 100 B.C.E. -
400 C.E.

Architectural Mountains
and Earths First Cities:

Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (Modern Iraq) 2100-2050 B.C.E.

Pyramids at Giza, Egypt 2601-2525 B.C.E.

Wall painting of a
garden from a tomb
in Thebes, Egypt.
1400 B.C.E.

Temple of Queen
Harshepsut. Deir
el Bahri, Egypt
1478 B.C.E.

Obelisks erected by Ramesses II
at temple of Amenhotep III
Luxor, Egypt

Obelisk of Tuthmose III
Central Park, NYC

Ritual and Landscape in
Prehistoric Greece

Cave sacred to Zeus on the eastern face of Mount Ida, Crete

Lioness Gate entrance to the
city of Mycenae, Greece (1300-
1200 BC)

“Labyrinth” at Knossos, Crete, Greece 1700 BCE

Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae Greece
1500-1400 BCE

Cosmology in the
Landscapes of the
Americas

Pueblo Bonito, Arizona 860-1130 CE

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 500 CE, Basket Maker culture
1100-1300 CE ancestral Puebloan culture

Nazca Lines,
Nazca Peru
200-600 CE

Serpent Mound, Locust Grove, Ohio 1000-1140 CE

Great Bear Mound, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Marquette, Iowa
350-1300 CE

Recommended