Sentence examples for geometric engravings from inspiring English sources
Another had red geometric engravings.
The oldest known works of art are abstract engravings – geometric designs in red iron oxide – found at a cave site in southern Africa and dated to about 75,000 years ago.
"There is evidence that pigments were being used by our ancestors in Africa 150,000 years ago and that later, around 70,000 years ago, they were engraving geometric patterns on objects," says Professor Steven Mithen of Reading University.
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It takes a moment to get our eyes in, and then, leaping out of the sun-baked rocks, we spot engravings of kangaroos, dugongs and emus; turtles, birds and mythical beasts; complex geometric patterns; warriors with boomerangs; and bush turkeys.
The geometric signs, in red and black, reminded them of their own clan insignia, the animals and engravings of figures from their creation myths".
Metal engravings of birds.
They are engravings, not woodcuts.
Makes geometric constructions.
"Geometric Abstraction in America".
Motifs were chiefly geometric.
