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The Syrian Golan is home to the oldest human sculpture in the world

2021-10-27T17:19:56.836Z


Damascus, SANA- The Golan has a long civilized and cultural history dating back to the Paleolithic era, and documents the archaeological finds discovered.


Damascus-SANA

The Golan has a long civilized and cultural history dating back to the Paleolithic era, and the archaeological finds document the existence of one hundred and seventy archaeological sites in the Golan Heights, but plastic art remains rooted in that region, where archaeological evidence indicates that the Syrian Golan is the virgin land for the emergence of the first attempts of plastic art in the world .

The sculptural statue discovered in the Golan Heights represents the oldest artistic sculptural creativity in the world and the oldest evidence to this day of the emergence of sculpture, according to the talk of the historian Dr. Mahmoud El-Sayed of the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums to SANA, indicating that this statue confirms that the symbolic expression in humans appeared at an early age. From the history of human life and that a person (Homo-Aurectus) knew plastic art

Contrary to what some archaeologists believed that the birth of plastic art had come in the last stages of the Neanderthal era, and that the art of sculpture preceded the art of painting.

The statue was discovered in 1981 in an archaeological site in the area (Lake Ram) in the occupied Syrian Golan during the illegal excavations practiced by the usurping Zionist entity. The oldest is more than 700,000 years BC.

Pictures of the statue show that it is in a female form and carved on a piece of local volcanic stone, and it is 3.5 cm long, 2.5 cm wide and 2.1 cm thick.

Microscopic analyzes proved that the statue was not the product of natural erosion. Rather, the statue was deliberately formed by human hands in order to modify its natural shape and produce human imaging. The cracks were made by a tool made of flint stone with a sharp tip that was also used in shaping the head and arm, and this clearly distinguishes it from the signs that It can be caused by natural and climatic factors.

It is noted through an in-depth study of the Golan statue that there is a correct formation and cavity from the head protrusion, clear traces of hollowing and scraping, and sculptural symmetry regarding the neck, body and arm of the statue.

In this context, a statue similar to the statue of the Golan was discovered in the archaeological area in the Draa Valley near the city of Tan-Tan in the Maghreb, but it is 6 cm longer and more modern in time and more advanced in terms of the tool used in sculpture and the method of expressing the human parts. It was found between two archaeological suits dating between 500,000 / 200,000 BC, and this confirms that the Golan statue is the oldest human figurative art sculpture in the world.

Archaeological evidence in its various forms and dates confirm that the Golan is an integral part of the motherland Syria and that the archaeological sites in the Golan are historically linked to successive civilizations over Syria, the cradle of civilizations and the original home of sculpture in the history of human civilization.

The above confirms that the art of sculpture, which represents a manifestation of human creativity, was born in Syria and before any other place in the world, and it is the art that the Syrian sculptor has resorted to since the Paleolithic era to embody ideas and express oneself. The art of sculpture is older in time than the art of painting, and that the Syrian Golan is the first place of its birth.

Source: sena

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