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April Slipsager's Wiki project is on Iron Age Celtic religion. In part of her project she goes over where the religious practices of many Celtic peoples were held. As most people know, the Celts were very close to nature, and so therefore wanted to practice their religion outdoors. She shows how Iron Age Celts (particularly Druids) used some of these megalithic sites for worship, even though they were not the ones who built them. This is important because it shows that these sites were important and were preserved and used for thousands of years. Iron Age Celtic Religion
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Amanda Mollica's Wiki project is on European art as well, primarily cave art, which I also cover in my project. She does a wonderful job of examples of cave art. She has one example that I did not use which was the presence of unique animals painted on the walls of Chauvet cave. I did not come across this information in any of my research. Here she states that the walls seen here have exotic animals such as lions, owls, rhinos and hyenas just to name a few. I also noticed some discrepancies in our projects. She discusses the possibility of 'hunting magic' which it appears to be entirely possible from her research, but with my research 'hunting magic' is the laughing stock of the archaeological community. If I had noticed this earlier on in my project I would have liked to have found out which was more credible, but as far as I know my research is accurate. Mollica European Art

Perrin Curley's Wiki project is on the history of African Rock Art. He discusses the dates and the types of art that is common to this area. The idea behind rock art is similar to the idea behind cave paintings that I discuss in my project. The two common reason for making rock art are 'sympathetic magic' and 'art for art's sake', which I also discuss, only with sympathetic art being dubbed 'hunting magic'. The painting of the scene of a hunt and a kill helps to ensure a good hunt. As Amanda Mollica and myself discuss cave art, Perrin goes over how the reasons behind this art will never truly be known to us but we can speculate that they are related to some religious aspect, or the idea of the painter's world around them. As Perrin notes, these pieces of art have " as social function"; communicating ideas to others and recording these ideas in some way. Ancient African Art