Art Before History

Question 0

Pebble resembling the human face

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At Makapansgat Cave

Question 1

1925, Makapansgat Cave, South Africa

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Discov. Bones of Australopithecus (predecessor to humans)

Question 2

1969-1972 discovered Apollo II Cave with ___

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Painted plaques dated around 23,000 BCE

Question 3

Profile view was used b/c

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It showed the most information about animals

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Hohlenstein-Stadel

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Earliest discovered ivory statuette, 30,000 BCE (foot tall, human with feline head, sorcerers or humans dressed up)

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Venus of Willendorf

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Feline-human, nude, most likely not deities, possible fertility image, showed defined pubic triangle

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Laussel

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Relief chiseled into flat surface, once part of a larger piece

Question 7

Le Tuc d’Audoubert

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Relief built up from a flat surface

Question 8

Le Madeliene

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Reindeer antler, spearhead, artists interpretation of a turned neck from profile

Question 9

Altamira

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1st example of cave paintings, 1879, Spain

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Lascaux

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Several hundred feet long, natural ledges to place tools, Hall of the Bulls w/ twisted perspective, man’s first appearance

Question 11

Pech-Merle

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“Negative” hand prints, horses placed according to natural rock formation

Question 12

Neolithic Art

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9000 BCE, weaving, metal work, pottery, counting with stone pebbles
Jericho, Ain Ghazal, Catal Hoyuk

Question 13

Jericho

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7000 BCE, plateau in the Jordan river valley, walls surrounded the town for protection w/ guard watch towers

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Ain Ghazal

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Painted houses and floors red

Question 15

Catal Hoyuk

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7000 to 5000 B.C.E. Neolithic culture over a period of 800 years first signs of trade urban living settlements predetermined scheme dead were buried under their settlements hunting as a food source group of hunters depicted without a doubt profile view of humans shows them clearly pigments were applied with a brush to a white background of dry plaster, first landscape

Question 16

Newgrange Ireland

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3200 B.C.E. oldest burial monuments in Europe some mountains contain more than one passage into the grave passageway of 280 feet in diameter and 44 feet tall, stones held in place by their own weight, when the winter solstice illuminates the passageway and the burial chamber

Question 17

Hagar Qim

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3200- 2500 B.C.E. oldest stone temples anywhere in the world courses are stacked horizontal rows, post and lintel (upright post supported by a horizontal beam)

Question 18

Stonehenge

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Henge is an arrangement of stones in a circle often surrounded by a ditch the outer ring, is 100 feet in diameter standing apart and to the east is the heel stone which for a person looking outward from the center of the complex would mark the point where the sun rose at the summer solstice