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22 Cards in this Set
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Prehistoric |
before written, historical documentation |
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Paleolithic |
old stone age |
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Megalith |
Large stones that make up stonehenge |
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Post-and-lintel system |
vertical posts supporting horizontal lintel |
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Ziggurat |
massive mountain temple made of mud brick/adobe |
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Register/Frieze |
horizontal bands that display a narrative |
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Hierarchy of scale |
an artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance |
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Stele |
a carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events |
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Cuneiform |
‘wedge shaped’ a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia in which wedge shaped characters were produced by pressing a stylus into a soft clay tablet which was then baked or otherwise allowed to harden. |
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Narrative |
a story |
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Hieroglyph |
a symbol or picture used to confer meaning in hieroglyphic writing |
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Relief Carving |
sculpture in which it is attached to background |
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High relief |
deep carving, figures raised high from background |
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Low relief |
shallow carving, figure is lower down |
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Mastaba |
ancient Egyptian barrial tomb |
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Ka |
In ancient Egypt, the immortal human life force |
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Closed form sculpture |
maintains a visual connection to the original shape of the material |
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Idealism |
perfection or more perfect version than what would exist |
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Naturalism |
The style of painted or sculpted representation based on close observation of the natural world that was the core of the classical condition |
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Mesoamerica |
the region that comprises Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and the Pacific coast of El Salvador. |
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Pre-Columbian |
the cultures that flourished in the Western Hemisphere before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the beginning of European contact and conquest |
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Codex |
separate pages of vellum or parchment bound together at one side |
