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36 Cards in this Set
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What kind of imagery is found at Pech Merle?
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two near life size horses that fit very well onto the panel on which they are painted. Dappled Horse Panel.
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Where is the Dappled Horse Panel Found?
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Pech Merle
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Give an example of how there is continuity between personal ornaments found in Western Europe in the Aurignacian and Gravettian
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Use same materials
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Give three examples of fired clay
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1) Woman with Horn, Laussel, Gravettian
2) Les Deux Personnnages (Playing Card) Laussel, Gravettian 3) La Dame a la capuche, Brassempovy, France |
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Where is La Dame a la capuche found?
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Brassempovy, France
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When was La Dame a la capuche found?
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in 1892
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From what material is La Dame a la capuche made?
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Ivory
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Why is La Dame a la capuche significant?
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One of the few detailed representations of the human face
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Where is Les Deux Personnages found?
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Laussel
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Where is the woman with horn found?
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Laussel
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With what object are gravettian engravings made?
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flint burins are sometimes used
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Give an example of a Gravettian engraving
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Engraved woolly mammoth from Grotte de Cusac, Dordogne, France
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What was found underneath the woolly mammoth engraving panel at Grotte de Cusac?
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Human skeletons, one dating to 25 kya BP
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Give four examples of Gravettian painted caves (Hands)
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1) Pech Merle
2) Gargas 3) Cosque 4) Chauvet |
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What kind of objects were perforated and worn as personal ornamentation in the Gravettian?
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-Heyna Carnassial, human molars, wolf canines, deer canines, and basket shaped beads
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What was the connection Randy White made between wind instruments and the Isturitz pipes?
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White thinks there is significance between the bird bones and the air/wind sound produced by the pipes...
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When was the Gravettian?
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28-22 kya BP
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Did Neandertals make Gravettian images?
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No, only AMH
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Talk about Gravettian art
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Animal signs dominate
greater diversity, more geometric signs, overlapping, lots of hand prints (gargas). hundreds of human representations in terms of sculptures (venus) |
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When was the Solutrean?
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22-18 kya BP
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What things were found in the Solutrean?
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Needles, spear throwers (atlatls), heat treating of lithics, pressure flaking,
** More localized ** - Spain, West France, Belgium |
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General characteriztics of the Solutrean
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-human figures rarer
-geometrics rarer -most images of animals -no plants yet id'd with certainty |
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Give an example of Bas-Relief from the Solutrean
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Forneau du Diable
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Examples of Solutrean personal ornaments
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pierced animal teeth, sea-shells, beads, larger pendants
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T/F - there are an abundance of 3D sculptures and painted caves during the Solutrean
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False
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Let's talk about Cosquer:
1) When was it found? 2) Who found it? 3) What kind of images are within? |
1) found 1991
2) found by Henri Cosquer 3) 100+ animal images, cross hatching, negative hand prints, |
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What kind of animals were found painted in Cosquer?
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awks, jelly fish
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When was the Magdalenian?
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18 - 11 kya BP
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How many painted caves sites have been found dating to the Magdalenian?
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close to 300
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How many portable artifacts have been found dating to the Magdalenian?
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10,000
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T/F: Geometric signs outnumber identifiable ones during the Magdalenian?
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True
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What materials are portable objects dating to the Magdelenian made from?
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Stone, bone, antler, ivory
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What country accounts for about 90% of the portable artwork found during the Magdelenian?
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France
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What kind of portable art from the Magdalenian was found at Grotte d'Isturitz
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-carved antler in form of fishtail;
-engraved antler; -decorated spear points made of reindeer antler |
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describe the personal ornamentation found on a women buired at St. Germaine-la-Riviere
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She wore a necklace of a dozen deer teeth, each polished, drilled and engraved with a unique geometric design
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Name painted cave sites during the Magdalenian
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1) Rouffignac
2) Lascaux 3) Altamira **(and Solutrean) |
