I.2 “Prehistoric” Art
Early Ci)es and Ancestor Cults
“This borderland between the desert and the
mountains is a kind of cultivable fringe of the
desert, – a Fertile Crescent […]. It forms roughly
a semicircle with the open side toward the south.
Its western end is at the southeastern corner of
the Mediterranean, the center lies directly north
of Arabia, and the eastern end is at the northern
end of the Persian Gulf”.
James Henry Breasted, Ancient Times: A History of the Early
World. An Introduction to the Study and the Career of Early
Man, Boston 1916.
Çatalhöyük, c. 7,100 BCE
Göbekli Tepe, c. 9,900 BCE
Jericho, c. 9,600 BCE