Chapter 5: Food and Shelter

Question 1

Paleolithic

Answer 1

aka Old Stone Age
began roughly around 30,000 BCE
hunters and gatherers, nomadic, invented fire for warmth and cooking, made stone tools and later tools out of bones

Question 2

Mesolithic

Answer 2

aka Middle Stone Age
10,000 - 7,000 BCE
Known for raising crops and animals
Hunting and gathering was still a way of life.

Question 3

Neolithic

Answer 3

aka New Stone age
8000 BCE
expanded agricultural production and the beginnings of cities forming

Question 4

Archaic

Answer 4

Greek era, 520 - 510 BCE

Saw figure styles on pottery evolving from stiff, simplified forms into more fluidly realized bodies.

Question 5

quatrefoil

Answer 5

similar to a four-leaf clover

Question 6

Pop Art

Answer 6

a movement which was noted for glorifying popular culture items into art icons

Question 7

Baroque

Answer 7

17th c art movement. It’s known for exaggeration, artifice, and theatrics.

Question 8

Renaissance

Answer 8

Known for the rebirth of learning in Europe from te 14th throught the 16th centuries and for the study of Greek and ROman culture.

Question 9

International Style

Answer 9

Features bare (lack of the decorative) buildings of steel and glass, self-contained and with controlled access. Tends to be geometric, simple “less is more” attitude.

Question 10

Postmodern architectural

Answer 10

Emphasizes visual complexity, historical references, colorfulness, and even fun.

Question 11

Deconstructivist architecture

Answer 11

Rejects established conventions and seeks to shake the viewer’s expectations. Buildings can be disoriented, irregular and outside forms may give no clue to the space of their interiors.