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35 Cards in this Set
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five types of artistic value
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Intrinsic, Religious, Nationalistic, Psychological, and Material
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Two famous cave systems for prehistoric art
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Lasco and Autamyra
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two techs prehistoric artists used
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Plow powdered earth onto animal fat or mix earth and fat togather
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Purpose of cave art
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Magico-religious
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Prehistoric signiture
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handprint
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Where is prehistoric art found
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usually near the back of a cave
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Human's place in cave art
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rarly ever seen
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Characteristics of prehistoric painting
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usually animals and usually profile
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Stone henge
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Post and Lintel construction in cromlech england
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2 most recent discoveries
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Henri Cosquer's cave and the Chauvet Cave
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Ancient near east
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coveres most of the modern day middle east
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Mesopotamia
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modern iraq. built ziggurats
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tigris and euphrates
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did for the ancient near east what the nile did for egypt
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Jerico skull
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a plaster skull that allows us to attempts to reconstruct the image of a dead person in plater
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Cuneiform
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near eastern form of writing
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Ziggurat
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raised temple in near east
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Signature seal
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near eastern form of the signet ring
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statues from the abu temple in tell asmar
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demonstrated heirarchal proportioning
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pyrimid evolution
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1)bury in sand
2)pile rocks over bodies 3)mastabas 4)Zoser makes step pyrimid 5)pyrimids 6)secert tombs in the vally of kings |
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Palette of Narmer
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oldest record of egypt's history
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Rosetta stone
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allowed translation of egyption hyroglyphics
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The Nile
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4160 miles. the source of egypt's prosperity
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The Great Shinx
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location Giza
66 ft high and 240 ft long |
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Egyptian sculpture
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stiff ridgid emotionless made to last until eternity
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Egyptan code and proportional grid
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detailed how all egyption art was to be made
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characteristics of egyptian painting
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usually profile and emotionless.
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Mastaba
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rectangular block, the precurser to the pyrimids
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step pyrimid
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mastabas stacked on top of each other
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Great pyrimid
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Kofra, largest of all pyrimids. 481 ft high 755 ft long
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discovered king tuts tomb
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Howard Carter
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Menhir
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Prehistoric monoliths
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dolman
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two or more megaliths with a capstone
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sculpture in the round
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a 3d scupture
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relief sculpture
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still attached to its medium
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Kemet
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egyptian, means black. also what they called their land
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