Neolithic Art

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Ancient Agricultural Period of Post Ice Age

The art of the post Neolithic era evolved in the Sumerian and Egyptian civilisations, and reached its peak in the Greek-Roman period.

From the dawn of clay pottery, efforts were not spared to shape and decorate aesthetically the ceramic pots and vessels of essentially every day use.

The potteries of post Ice Age agricultural period have almost exhausted the styles and patterns available to decorate artefacts of dried and burnt clay. The pottery artists of modern days keep re-visiting the Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and traditional folk styles for ideas of shapes and pattern.

5,000 BC - The Netherlands

5,000 BC - Mesopotamia

3,200 BC - Mesopotamia

3,000 BC - Mesopotamia

Scroll Jar - Jordan
(Dead Sea Scrolls)

Athenian red-figure calyx-krater

Byzantine cooking pot

Byzantine jar fragment decorated with great skills.

Great Civilisations of Antiquities

Sumerian King and Divine Guardian,
Uruk, 4,500 BC, Hermitage Museum

Inscribed clay tablets, Sumeria, 4,500 BC, Hermitage Museum

Domestication of horse is evident from the cave painting from as early as 32,000 BC. The first relic of domesticated dog was unearthed in the Hungarian Neolith.

Dog - an intriguingly stylish and practical creation, ceramic statuette. Neolith, Hungary, Mezokovesd

Dog - Neolith, Hungary, Mezokovesd Forum for the Fundamentalist Review of Science, Art and Philosophy.

Last revisited: 14 October, 2001

Contact: agricola2000@bigpond.com

Last revisited: 11 October, 2001