Midterm 2 (3)

Question 1

What are the two types of upper paleolithic art in Europe?

Answer 1

1. Parietal art

2. Mobiliary art

Question 2

What is parietal art?

Answer 2

Art on the walls of a cave

Question 3

What is mobiliary art?

Answer 3

Art that is portable (includes Venus figurines and animal carvings)

Question 4

About what time are the earliest cave pantings?

Answer 4

40, 800 KYA.

Question 5

What is the oldest known cave with painting?

Answer 5

El Castillo Cave, Spain.

Question 6

What are venus figurines?

Answer 6

Art of portraying womanly figurines with exaggerated sexual organs (butt, breasts, hips).

Question 7

What is significant about the Venus of Willendorf figurine?

Answer 7

She is depicted wearing either a headpiece or having her hair braided/twisted. Approx 24, 000 KYA.

Question 8

What is the Venys of Hohle Fels?

Answer 8

The oldest depictions of the human female. 35, 000 KYA.

Question 9

What other portable art is found in the upper paleolithic?

Answer 9

In the hohlenstein site, 32, 000 kya lion headed figurine from mammoth ivory

Question 10

What do you see in upper paleolithic burials?

Answer 10

Examples of elaborate burials

Question 11

What could venus figurines represent?

Answer 11

Fertility, birthing process, reproduction, female form, etc.