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

and Contemporary Peoples

Where are we? How was the worldcreated, and what is the place andstate of human beings within thecontexts of space and time?

Genius loci: spirit of place

Collective Unconscious: aninherited collective, universal, andimpersonal psyche which isidentical in all individuals.

Caves and Circles:

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, England2500 BCE

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England 2500 BCE

Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England 2500 BCE

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

Woodhenge, 2004

Woodhenge, Cahokia, Illinois. 100 - 400 BCE

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

Architectural Mountainsand Earths First Cities:

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

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

Hindu Temple, India. 800 C.E.

Wall painting of agarden from a tombin Thebes, Egypt.1400 B.C.E.

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

Temple of QueenHarshepsut. Deirel Bahri, Egypt1478 B.C.E.

Obelisks erected by Ramesses IIat temple of Amenhotep III

Luxor, Egypt

Obelisk of Tuthmose III

Central Park, NYC

Ritual and Landscape inPrehistoric Greece

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

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

“Labyrinth” at Knossos, Crete, Greece 1700 BCE

Knossos megaron

Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae Greece1500-1400 BCE

Cosmology in theLandscapes 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

Machu Picchu, Peru

Nazca Lines,Nazca Peru200-600 CE

Serpent Mound, Locust Grove, Ohio 1000-1140 CE

Great Bear Mound, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Marquette, Iowa350-1300 CE