What Characteristics make the Human with feline head from Germany a significant find?
Oldest known sculpture, showed paleolithic people had the ability of abstract thought and forward thinking
The woman of Willendorf figurine was probably used for what purpose?
fertility statue
What purposes are suggested for the art in caves at Altimira, Chauvet, Pech-merle and Lascaux?
no one knows why but some theories are they were decorations, they may have had magical properties, they used the art for rituals to improve hunters luck. the animals served as teaching tools, or to assure the survival of the herd.
Ultimately why will the works in the ancient caves remain a mystery?
Before the invention of writing no explanation could be recorded
How did the artist create negative " handprints"?
by using reeds or hallow bones to spray ground ochers
If the composition with the rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison tells a story why is this significant in art history?
If the painter placed the figures beside each other to tell a story than this is evidence for the creation of complex narrative compositions involving humans and animals much earlier than anyone expected
Identify two aspects of Neolithic peoples that changed the economic basis of their lives?
Agriculture and stock raising be came human kinds major food sources. Development of stone implements.
What do passage graves such as Newgrange tell us about Neolithic society's view of death?
The importance of honoring the dead in Neolithic society
Tell a probable purpose for Stonehenge
solar calendar
What purpose does the "heel stone" serve at stonehenge?
marks the point where the sun rose at the summer solstice
Explain how social and economic changes that mark the shift from the paleolithic period to the neolithic period are reflected in the art work?
With the beginning of agriculture and the formation of the first settled communities people had more time or resources to make art. Also with farming they made art by tracking the seasons.
What did Paleolithic art depict
hunting scenes animal carvings or fertility
What is considered to be an attempt by stone age peoples to gain some sort of control over their environment whether magic or ritual, and represents a giant leap in human cognition abstract thinking
paleolithic art
When was the Neolithic age
8000-3000 BCE
What is the literal meaning of Neolithic
new stone
what type of societies were humans settled into
agrarian
what was the climate like in neolithic age
ice age ended climate stable
When did Paleolithic Art begin
40,000 years ago
When was the Paleolithic age
30,000-10,000 BCE
Give an example of Portable art
figurines or decorated objects
Give an example of Stationary art
did not move Altimira and Lascaux
Where is the Human with the feline head from
Hohlenstein-Stadel Germany
What is the date of the Human with the feline head
30,000-28000 BCE
What is the medium of the Human with the feline head
Mammoth Ivory
What is the size of the Human with the feline head
11 5/8
Where is the Nude woman Venus of Willendorf from
Willendorf Austria
What is the date of the Venus of Willendorf
28000-25000 BCE
What is the Venus of Willendorf medium
natural shape of the stone
What is the significance of the human with the feline head?
oldest known sculpture
What is the significance of Venus of Willendorf
fertility image
What is the date of the cave at Altamire, Spain
13,000-11,000 BCE
What is the medium of the Altamire, Spain
cave
What is the function and Significance of Altamire
showed the skill's and knowledge of paleolithic people
What is in the cave at Pech-Merle, France
spotted horses and negative hand imprints
What is the date of the cave Pech-Merle, France
23,00-22,000 BCE
What is the date of the Chauvet Cate, Vallon-pon-d'Arc
30,000-28,000 or 15,000 to 13,000
What is the significance of Aurochs, horses and rhicoceroses
Over lapping and animal horns
Where is the rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison painting?
Lascaux france
What is the date of the Lascaux France paintings
16,000-14,000 BCE
What is the significance of the rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison?
earliest example of narrative art
What is the date of the Chinese horse in lascaux
16000-14000 BCE
What is the significance of the Chinese horse
pregnant running horse coloring very good
What are the Paleolithic period art works
Human with feline head, nude woman Venus of Willendorf, Altamira Spain, spotted horses and negative hand imprints Pech-Merle, Aurochs, horses and rhinoceroses chavet cave, Rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison lascaux
What are the Neolithic period art works
corbeled vault of newgrange, house 1 skara brae, stonehenge, salisbury plain wilshire england
what is the date of newgrange
3200-2500 BCE
What is newgrange made of?
megaliths
what is the significance of newgrange?
passage grave one of the oldest in europe
What is the date of Skara Brae
3100-2500 BCE
What is the date of Stonehenge Salisbury plain
2550-1600 BCE
What is composition
the way in which an artist organizes forms in an artwork, either by placing shapes on a flat surface or arranging forms in space
What is corbeled vault
a vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch
what is freestanding sculpture
freestanding gigures, carved or modeled in three dimensions
what are megalith
greek "great stone" a large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.
what does neolithic mean
the "new" stone age
what does Paleolithic mean
the "old" stone age
What is a passage grave
a prehistoric tomb with a long stone corridor leading to a burial chamber covered by a great tumulus
what is post-and-lintel system
a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel
what is radiocarbon dating
a method of measuring the decay rate of carbon isotopes in organic matter to provide dates for organic materials such as wood and fiber
what is relief
in sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. the degree of relief is designated high, low, or sunken, in the last, the artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher th
what is perspective
a convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; also called twisted perspective
how did food correspond to the paleolithic era
hunter gatherers move to the food source transitory people
how did food correspond to the neolithic era
herders raise livestock lived in settlements, divided labor into occupations farmer
Which was first pyramids of giza of stonehenge
stonehenge
what was the purpose of newgrange
tomb