Animal style

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"Animal style" deer, (8-7th century BC) Arzhan kurgan, Tuva.
Ordos culture, belt buckle, 3rd–1st century BC

Animal style art is an approach to decoration found from Ordos culture to Northern Europe in the early Iron Age, and the barbarian art of the Migration Period, characterized by its emphasis on animal motifs. The zoomorphic style of decoration was used to decorate small objects by warrior-herdsmen, whose economy was based on breeding and herding animals, supplemented by trade and plunder.[1] Animal art is a more general term for all art depicting animals.

  1. ^ Emma C.Bunker, Animal Style Art from East to West, Asia Society. p. 13