This document provides information about prehistoric art and architecture from the Upper Paleolithic period through the Neolithic period. It defines key terms like sculpture in the round, relief sculpture, abstraction, stylization, attributes, modeling, flying gallop, ceramics, post-and-lintel construction, corbeling, dolmen, capstones, cairn, and passage graves. The document also lists study questions about how nomadic versus settled lifestyles affected art, how cave paintings differed and painting techniques, the meaning of "flying gallop", theories for cave paintings, and hypothesized uses of megalithic monuments.
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1. M01 Assignment:
You are responsible for knowing the following items.
Works of Art:
PREHISTORIC ART
Upper Paleolithic Art (c. 42,000-8000 BCE) Define the
following
Lion-Human
from Hohlenstein-Stadel
Woman from Willendorf
Architecture: (mammoth-bone house, Ukraine)
Cave and rock paintings, sculpture
Pech-Merle Cave
Chauvet Cave
Lascaux Cave
Altamira
Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert
Art in the Neolithic Period (8000-3400/2300 BCE)
2. Sculpture (Woman and Man from Cernavoda)
Village settlements (Catal Hoyuk)
Megalithic Architecture
Newgrange, Ireland
Stonehenge
Vocabulary:
sculpture in the round
relief sculpture
abstraction
stylization
attributes
modeling
flying gallop
ceramics
Post-and-lintel construction
corbeling
dolmen
3. capstones
cairn
passage graves
henge
incised
M01 Assignment
Study Questions
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Prehistory
1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans
began to live in villages. How did this
affect their art work respectively?
2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the
Paleolithic period? What were some of the techniques used?
Define
flying gallop
. What does the term refer to?
3. What are some of the theories why Prehistoric humans may
have painted on cave walls?
4. 4.What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic
monuments in Europe?
5. What might the appearance of metals mean to early humans?