Life With the Dead

takethatcambridge:

One of the most salient discoveries of primitive art in America was found in Tequixquiac, called the Tequixquiac Bone, which had no purpose but to reflect the ideological sense of the artist who carved the piece of bone from a camelid around 22,000 years BCE.

Just wanted to mention how much I despise the use of the term ‘primitive’. That particular word is loaded with condescension and implies that the artist and their society were lesser than modern groups. It is definitely something to be wary of when describing art, artifacts, or architecture.

(via centuriespast)

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