1.1: Art in the Stone Age

Question 1

1. ____ was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art.

Answer 1

The profile view

Question 2

2. The human with feline (lion?) head sculpture was found in ____.

Answer 2

Germany

Question 3

3. The use of ____ along with its large scale suggests the sculpture human with feline (lion?) head was important to its creator.

Answer 3

mammoth ivory

Question 4

4. The emphasis on the anatomy of the nude woman figurine (Venus of Willendorf) suggests early man’s interest in ____.

Answer 4

health and fertility

Question 5

5. Figures sculpted in the round can be defined as ____.

Answer 5

freestanding

Question 6

6. ____ is the location of the most spectacular cave paintings that have been discovered.

Answer 6

France

Question 7

7. One of the most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, the Hall of the Bulls, was discovered in ____.

Answer 7

the Lascaux caves

Question 8

8. What is a ground line?

Answer 8

It is the baseline in which figures appear to stand.

Question 9

9. The convention of representing animals’ horns in twisted perspective in cave paintings or allowing the viewer to see the head in profile and the horns from the front is termed ____.

Answer 9

descriptive

Question 10

10. One of the suggested purposes for Paleolithic cave paintings is thought to have been ____.

Answer 10

insurance for the survival of the herd

Question 11

11. The painting rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison is unique in Paleolithic art regarding the presence of ____.

Answer 11

a male figure

Question 12

12. ____ is one of the primary characteristics of Neolithic society.

Answer 12

Domestication of animals and plants

Question 13

13. What necessitated the inhabitants of Neolithic Jericho to construct fortification walls?

Answer 13

Protection from marauding nomads

Question 14

14. The remains of what appear to be the oldest stone temples have been discovered in ____.

Answer 14

Göbekli Tepe

Question 15

15. Whatever their purpose, one of the most outstanding differences between Neolithic figures, such as the human figure from Ain Ghazal and Paleolithic statues, is ____.

Answer 15

its large scale and sophisticated technique

Question 16

16. What is bitumen?

Answer 16

A tarlike substance

Question 17

17. The figures in the deer hunt wail painting from Çatal Höyük are rendered in _____, which describes what a human body is, as opposed to its appearance from a specific viewpoint.

Answer 17

the composite view

Question 18

18. The regular appearance of ____ distinguishes paintings produced in the Neolithic period from those in the Paleolithic period.

Answer 18

human figures

Question 19

19. Çatal Höyük has a most remarkable mural, a landscape. Which statement best defines the term landscape?

Answer 19

It is a picture of a natural setting in its own right without any narrative content.

Question 20

20. Monuments from the Neolithic period in western Europe, such as Stonehenge, are characterized by ____.

Answer 20

megalithic architecture

Question 21

21. A henge, or ____, was a type of megalithic monument found almost exclusively in Britain.

Answer 21

an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle

Question 22

22. What is a megalith?

Answer 22

It is a massive rock-cut stone.

Question 23

23. In the Neolithic period, agriculture and raising stock became humankind’s major food sources. Which area transitioned to these activities first?

Answer 23

Anatolia and Mesopotamia

Question 24

24. ____ is the simplest and oldest method of spanning a passageway.

Answer 24

Post and lintel