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Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art Definitions Flashcards

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Aurochs

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Something like a cow/ox thing

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Bronze Age

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Age when metal became popular

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Cairn

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Pile that served both as prehistoric burial site and as a maker

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Capstone

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Final, optimist stone in a corebelled arch or vault, which joints the sides and completes the structure

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Corbel

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Early roofing and arching technique where each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer, until upper most corbels meet

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Dolmen

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Prehis structure made up of 2 or more larger upright stones, supporting a large, flat, horizontal slab, or slabs

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Henge

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Circular area enclosed by stones or wood posts set up by neolithic peoples

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Ice Age

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(idk just think of the movie)

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Megalithic

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Large Stone used in some prehistoric architecture (neolithic)

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Composite Pose

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Combining different viewpoints within a single representation (making paintings look more alive)

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Lintel

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Horizontal element of any material carried by 2 or more vertical supports to form an opening

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Menhir

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Tall upright stone

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Mortise and Tenon

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Method of jointing 2 elements

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Olduvai Gorge

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Important site in Tanzania

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Ompahalos

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Round stone representing Navel of earth

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Paleolithic

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Early stage of stone age

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Passage Grave

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Prehistoric tomb under a cairn

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Neanderthal

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ice age people lmao

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Analogy

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Comparison between 2 things,

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Relative Dating

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Archeological process of determining relative chronological relationships among excavated objects

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Absolute dating

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Assigning historical date/years in which an object was made

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Relief Sculpture

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Surrounding material carved away to form a background that sets off the projecting figure

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Sculpture in the Round

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3D sculpture that’s carved free of any background or block

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Thatch

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Plant material (reeds or straw) tied over a framework of poles to make a roof, shelter, or a small building.

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Totem

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(totem poles?)

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Vault

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arched masonary structure that spans an interior space

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Wattle and Daub

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Wall construction method combining upright branches, woven with twigs (wittles) and plastered or filled with clay or mud (daub)

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Stone Age

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Stone was like super important back then and stuff

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BCE

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Before common era

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CE

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Common Era

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Photo: Women from Willendorf

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Austria, c. 24,000 BCE

  • Previously known as the Venus of Willendorf
  • Spherical Volumes
  • Healthy, mature female form
  • Recent interpretations more nuanceds: according to gamble, possibly nonverbal communication between groups of Paleolithic People.
  • Most people believed to be pregnant because of wide hops and widen belly
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Photo: Woman from Dolni

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Vestonice Czec Republic. 23,000 BCE

  • Raw Early form of process/performance art
  • Fired clay figures intended to be exploded in kin
  • Healthy mature female form
  • Early use of fire to make durable objects from clay
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Photo: Women from Brassempouty

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France, c. 30,000 BCE

  • hair or headress carved into a girl
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Photo: Wall painting with Horses, Rhinos, and Aurochs

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France, c. 32000-30000 BCE

  • Supprimosed figures of animals
  • Occasional male and female human figures
  • Handprints
  • Geometric markings
  • Handprints blown onto the wall
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Photo: Bird Headed man with Bison

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Lascaux Cave, c. 15000 BCE

  • Narrative –> tells a story
  • Man with bird head laying on ground (mask?)
  • Disemboweled bison
  • Atlatl
  • Composite pose drawing
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Photo: Bison Ceiling of a Cave

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Spain, c. 12500 BCE

  • Upper Paleolithic
  • Painting incorporates natural features of rock walls/ceiling
  • red and brown bison flanks backs
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Photo: Stonehenge

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England, c. 2900-1500 BCE

  • Megalithic monument
  • blue stone and gargen stone
  • Lintels/mortsie-and tennon joints
  • Changes in material/uses over time
  • Ceremonies linked to death and burial evident form contextual status
  • faced towards the sun
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Photo: Akimodo Type Pottery

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Japanese type

  • Earliest examples of Neolithic pottery
  • Reduced by Hunter-gatherer Society
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Photo: Human Figure from “Ain Gahzal”

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65000 BCE

  • bundled twig cores
  • Clothes painted on figures
  • Powerful legs but skinny arms/hands
  • Figures found buries in pits

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