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50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts

  • Written by Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor of Art, University of Tennessee
50 years ago, an artist convincingly exhibited a fake Iron Age civilization – with invented maps, music and artifacts'Trallib (Oil Container),' by Norman Daly, 1970. Daily made this object with an orange juicer.Photo by Marilyn Rivchin, CC BY-SA

Invented civilizations are usually thought of as the stuff of sci-fi novels and video games, not museums.

Yet in 1972, the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art at Cornell University exhibited “The Civilization of...

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