The Great Mother Goddess
The 25,000-year-old carved figurine, Venus of Willendorf, is associated with
Chauvet Cave - France
The first Paleolithic wall paintings were found in the caves of France and Spain just a short 100 years ago. The most recently discovered paintings, found in 1994 in the _________ , turned out to be the oldest (about 30,000 years old).
Old Stone Age
Paleolithic Period
New Stone Age
Neolithic Period
Rock Engraving
Petroglyph
Neolithic
Stonehenge was erected around 2,000 B.C.E., which we refer to as the _____ period.
Which is NOT true about Paleolithic art?
The cave paintings are not naturalistic (life-like) depictions of animals but rather abstract patterns
Which of the following is NOT related to the ancient civilizations?
Absence of architectural structures
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers valley - in Iraq
All four ancient civilizations emerged in the valleys of the big rivers. Which territory was named Mesopotamia -"the land between the rivers?
Writing System
Sumer was the first civilization in a succession of Mesopotamian peoples/cultures.
The ancient Sumerians developed the world's first wheel, plow and _______.
Ziggurats
The Sumerians worshiped their nature gods in shrines set atop gigantic platforms called ________, which were made of sun-baked bricks (core) and fired bricks (facing).
Which is NOT true about Egyptian art?
It is literature, and not the tombs, that is the main source of our knowledge about ancient Egypt.
Tombs
Egyptian pyramids were built to serve as:
Tutankhamen
Mask from Mummy Case was found in the tomb of which pharaoh?
Earthenware Beaker
Iran
Burial Urn
China
Murujuna Petroglyphs
Australia
Deer and Hands - Las Manos Cave
Argentina
Lyre - from "The King's Grave
Wood, gold, lapis lazuli, shell and silver
Head of Akkadian Ruler
Bronze
King Menkaura and Queen Khamerernebty
Sandstone - Greywacke
Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nebamun
Paint on dry plaster
Stonehenge
Neolithic Europe - England
The Great Pyramids of Giza
Egypt, Old Kingdom (c. 2500 B.C.E)
Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu
Mesopotamia - Sumer
Funeral temple of Queen Hatshepsut
Egypt, New Kingdom (c. 1450 B.C.E.)