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  2. Skull art - Wikipedia

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    Skull art. Skull art is found in various cultures of the world. Indigenous Mexican art celebrates the skeleton and uses it as a regular motif. The use of skulls and skeletons in art originated before the Conquest: The Aztecs excelled in stone sculptures and created striking carvings of their Gods. [1] Coatlicue, the Goddess of earth and death ...

  3. Plastered human skulls - Wikipedia

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    Plastered human skulls are human skulls covered in layers of plaster and typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern Palestinian city of Jericho, between 8,000 and 6,000 BC (approximately 9000 years ago), [1][2] in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period. They represent some of the oldest forms of art in the Middle East and ...

  4. Human skull symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Human skull symbolism. St. Jerome, by Lucas van Leyden. Skull symbolism is the attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull. The most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death. Humans can often recognize the buried fragments of an only partially revealed cranium even when other bones may look like shards of stone.

  5. Bolinao Skull - Wikipedia

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    The Bolinao Skull is an archaeological discovery excavated at the Balingasay Archaeological Site in Bolinao, Pangasinan in the Philippines. The Bolinao Skull is considered to be a one-of-a-kind find due to its gold dental decorations that resemble fish scales. This human skull find paved the way for further study of ornamental, burial, and ...

  6. Amarna art - Wikipedia

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    Amarna art, or the Amarna style, is a style adopted in the Amarna Period during and just after the reign of Akhenaten (r. 1351–1334 BC) in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, during the New Kingdom. Whereas ancient Egyptian art was famously slow to change, the Amarna style was a significant and sudden break from its predecessors both in the style of ...

  7. Bucranium - Wikipedia

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    Bucranium (pl. bucrania; from Latin būcrānium, from Ancient Greek βουκράνιον (boukránion) 'ox's head', referring to the skull of an ox) was a form of carved decoration commonly used in Classical architecture. The name is generally considered to originate with the practice of displaying garlanded, sacrificial oxen, whose heads were ...

  8. Paracas culture - Wikipedia

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    The face of a snarling feline decorates the side of the vessel chamber, directly under the whistle spout. [1] The Paracas culture was an Andean society existing between approximately 800 BCE and 100 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management and that made significant contributions in the textile arts.

  9. Symbols of death - Wikipedia

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    The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. [1] Human skeletons and sometimes non-human animal skeletons and skulls can also be used as blunt images of death; the traditional figures of the Grim Reaper – a black-hooded skeleton with a scythe – is one use of such symbolism. [2]

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