The pendant is approximately 12,500 years old and dates from the late Magdalenian era. It’s composed of a carved bone that’s roughly 1.5 mm thick and smoothed on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The pendant is approximately 12,500 years old and dates from the late Magdalenian era. It’s composed of a carved bone that’s roughly 1.5 mm thick and smoothed on both sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The engraving struck me because it was so simplistic, yet it depicted a wolverine with a characteristic bear-like face, pointed snout, tiny ears, substantial torso, and hairy paws. The delicate internal shading highlights the fur’s distinctive markings.
A spear or dart might be represented by the diagonal line across the animal’s shoulder. The pendant is broken, and the missing piece may have shown a different figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Richard Hollis writes in his book \u201cGraphic design\u201d about how \u201cVisual communication in widest sense has a long history. When the early man hunted for food and spotted the imprint of the animal in the mud, he was looking at a graphic sign\u201d This inspired me to recreate the wolverine pendant.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was the outcome of the pendant that I worked on. I made it out of cardboard and paper. I crumpled some paper, painted it a light grey tone, and glued it on the cardboard; I then used several colours of grey to create the bone impression. I tried to produce the same engraving on cardboard with a paper cutter before I designed the shape of the engraving, and I was surprised at how challenging it was! This piqued my curiosity in knowing more about prehistoric art and the techniques employed to create it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, I painted some cardboard using black paint to create a stable backdrop so the artifact could stand out. At first, I was going to leave the background plain black but I felt it was a little too empty, so I drew some cave paintings from the Magdalenian period to enhance the experience and make it seem like the viewer is literally in a cave. To conclude with my final outcome of the historical artifact assignment. I spent 2 hours on research time and finding my reference material and I took apporximately 2 days to make the artifact, get my entire setup in place and photograph it. I would give myself an 8.5\/10 since I feel I could have invested a little more time in creating a more interesting background and conducting a little more research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Works cited<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Factual information: <\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/joyofmuseums.com\/museums\/united-kingdom-museums\/london-museums\/british-museum\/wolverine-pendant-of-les-eyzies-prehistoric-portable-art\/<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Image sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wolverine pendant :\u00a0https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/collection\/object\/H_Palart-102<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Wolverine image:\u00a0https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/blog\/2016-february\/keeping-the-wolverine-wild<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Magdalenian cave art: https:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/shop\/posters\/magdalenian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/www.visual-arts-cork.com\/prehistoric\/magdalenian-art.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo\/magdalenian.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/best-ancient-cave-paintings-4869319<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this assignment, I decided to remake the wolverine pendant from the Magdalenian period( c. 17,000 \u2013 c. 12,000 BP). This Wolverine Pendant is a bone pendant decorated with an engraved drawing of a wolverine from the cave of Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France.At first, I was hesitant about my choice, but as I learned more … Continue reading “Historical Artifact \u2013 Wolverine pendant of Les Eyzies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[52,57,54,53],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-historical-artifact","tag-magdalenian","tag-pendant","tag-wolverine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13323\/2021\/11\/image-3.jpeg\")
These are the images I used for reference in my drawings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/ananyaeriyat\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13323\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-12-at-2.49.44-AM-1024x861.png\")
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