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Which type of figures appear more frequently than humans in Upper Paleolithic art?

Animals

The Viewpoint from which most animals were drawn in Paleolithic art?

Profile View

What was the lifestyleof humans during the Paleolithic stage?

Nomadic (or hunter gatherers)

The discovery of this cave in the 1990s pushed back the earliest known care paintings by roughly 15,000 years.

Chauvet Caves

The cave discovered by an amateur archaeologist and his daughter in 1879 on his property.

Altamira

Humankind's major food sources during the Neolithic period.

Agriculture and stock raising

A circle of meglithic stones often surrounded by a ditch

Henge

The many human figures found at Catal Hoyuk are painted in the most informative viewpoint.

Composite View

An early example of what type of construction can be found at the passage grave at Newgrange, Ireland.

Corbeled Vaulting

The settlement location of the Great Stone Tower built into 5-foot think wall.

Jericho

The writing system developed by the Sumerians.

Cuneiform

The horizontal bands in t he composition of the Warka Vase.

Registers

The central hall of a temple sitting on top of a ziggurat

Cella

The precious blue stone on the bull-headed lre found in a tomb at the cemetery of Ur.

Lapis Lazuli

Who were the enemies portrayed in the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin?

The Lullabi

The early Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed rectangular structure over a subterranean tomb.

Mastaba

The Early Dynastic work of art credited with establishing the Egyptian canon of art.

Palette of Narmer

The earliest known architect who is credited with building the Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara.

Imhotep

The New Kingdom female pharaoh who built a massive mortuary temple into the limestone cliffs at Deir el-Bahri.

Hatshepsut

The pharaoh who briefly established a monotheistic Egypt

Akhenaton

The architectural feature designed to bring light into a structure?

Clerrestory

The material of the Great Sphinx

Living rock

The winged human-headed bulls that stood at the palace entrance of Sargon II.

Lamassu

The wife of Akhenaton

Nefertiti

The pharaoh originally entombed in t he largest and oldest pyramid at Gizeh.

Khufu

How far did the engineers move the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel in 1968?

700 feet