Art History "Prehistoric"

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Old Stone Age

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Period prior to 10,000BC

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15000s

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The first pictures and sculptures were made around … BC

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Hunters and artists

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Two occupations during the old Stone Age

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Africa
Spain
France

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Most cave paintings are found in

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Ingenuity and creativity

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Prehistoric man used his ……… to make tools from available materials

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Light

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For … he used a hallowed out stone or bone, with a wick made of moss and animal fat for fuel.

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Drawing

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For … he used he used chunks of red and yellow OCHER (clay colored by iron oxide) which he ground and mixed with animal fat to make paint

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Brushes

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These were likely the beaten ends of sticks, moss, and hair

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Bones

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Cave dwellers also probably used these hollowed out things like a primitive airbrush and stencils made of animal hide

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Palette

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Used flat stone or bone for this

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Carvings

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They used sharpened stones and flints to make these

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One on top the other

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How animals are often drawn and this indicates that the cave dwellers didn’t think they were important once finished

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Altamira, Spain

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This is where the first cave paintings were found. They were found in 1870

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Lascaux, France

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This is where the next cave painting site was. (1940)

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Accidentally by children playing or exploring

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How both of those caves were found

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Venus of Willendorf

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This painting was found in Australia and is said to be 25,000 years old

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Neolithic Era

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Another name for The New Stone Age

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Jericho

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This was the world’s earliest stone fortification

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Stonehenge

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• cromlech
• used as a place of worship connected with the sun & a calendar
• located in England on the Salisbury Plains

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Post and Lintel

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The construction method Stonehenge used to be built

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Mesopotamia

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A great civilization rose up here and these people were called Sumerians

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Ziggurats

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Huge mountains of earth faced with mud-brick and fired brick

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Tower of Babel

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• most famous ziggurat

- was meant to be able to touch heaven

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Eyes

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The Sumerians emphasized these on their sculptures because they believed them to be the windows to the soul

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Hammurabi

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• first ruler of Babylon

- inscribed rules on a black basalt stele

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Assyrians

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Who took over Mesopotamia and expanded their control as far away as Egypt

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Persians

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These people remained in power until Alexander The Great toppled them

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Stylization

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The simplification and eliminate unnecessary details

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Profile

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A view from the side

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Earth colors

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Red
Yellow
Brown
Violet

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Architecture

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The art and science of designing and erecting buildings

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Cromlech

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A circle of monoliths, usually enclosing a type of altar

Stones arranged in a circle

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Palette

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A board or flat surface on which a painter places (and mixes) the supply of paint to be used

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Figurative

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Works using the human figure as subject matter

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Cella

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The main rectangular room of a temple containing the image of a god, goddess, or cult deity

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Low relief

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A surface that has only slight variations between the highest and lowest parts

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Lintel

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Horizontal elements used in construction

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Stele

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An upright slab bearing sculptured art, printed designs, or inscriptions