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17 Cards in this Set
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3 periods in the Stone-age
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-Paleolithic
-Mesolithic -Neolithic |
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Society in the Paleolithic period
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-Nomadic Hunters
-Cave Paintings -Carvings |
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Society in Neolithic period
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-stationary
-burials -megalithic structures |
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Cave Painting may have served as (six reasons)
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-Totems
-Record of Migration -Communication method -Target Practice -Sympathetic Magic -Ritual |
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Cave painting were usually missing...
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-Humans
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Sculpture in the stone age characteristics
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-Humans also represented, only women
-worked around material's natural shape |
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Menhir is a
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Standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright standing stone
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A Henge is a
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circular or oval-shaped bank with an internal ditch surrounding a central flat area of more than 20 m in diameter. There is typically little if any evidence of occupation in a henge, although they may contain ritual structures such as stone circles, timber circles and coves
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A megalith is
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A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones
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megalithic
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structures made of megaliths, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement, as well as representing periods of prehistory characterised by such constructions
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Nude woman from Willendorf
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-Paleolithic period
-used natural shape of rock -dubbed a Venus, misleading as it did not represent deities -May have been a fertility image -representing form not specific person |
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Bison with turned head, fragmentary spearthrower, from
La Madeleine, France, ca. 12,000 BCE. Reindeer horn, 4 long. |
-Paleolithic period
-head turned to maintain profile view, might be due to size constraints of material -Profile view important to artists for clairity |
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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave at Altamira, Spain,
ca. 12,000–11,000 BCE. Each bison 5 long. |
-Paleolithic period
-No ground line or setting, sole concern to represent animals -found by archaeologist and daughter in 1879 -60 feet long -all in profile |
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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall
painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 22,000 BCE. 11 2 long. |
-Paleolithic period
-negitive hands made by blowing pigment on hands against wall -one horse may have been inspired by rock formation -horses and hands painted on concave surfaces, bison on convex |
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Hall of the Bulls (left wall) in the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 15,000–13,000 BCE. Largest bull 11 6 long
Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 15,000–13,000 BCE. Bison 3 8 long. |
-Paleolithic period
-might be earliest example of narrative art -convention of representing horns, twisted perspective -paintings hundreds of feet from entrance -painted at different times |
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Deer hunt, detail of a wall
painting from Level III, Çatal Höyük, Turkey, ca. 5750 BCE. Museum of Anatolian Civilization, Ankara. |
-Neolithic period
-humans painted from front and side views to be descriptive, composite view, becomes rule for format for a millennia -regular appearance of human figure -plaster background, they start preparing surfaces -hunting narrative, shows details of weapons/faces |
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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, ca. 2550–1600 BCE. Circle is 97 in diameter; trilithons 24 high.
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-Neolithic period
-Probably a astronomical observatory and solar calendar, sunrise over heel stone at the summer solstice -some megaliths weigh over 50 tons -composed of rough-cut sarsen (sandstone) and smaller blue stone (volcanic rock from wales) -horse shoe at center -inner ring made of blue stone |
