Neolithic Art

Question 1

Answer 1

• Catal Hoyuk Deer Hunt
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Catal Hoyuk, town in central Turkey
• Painting of deer hunt in silhouette style
• Humans and animals interacting in paintings on walls
• most descriptive portrayal of humans - portrait and frontal views - Twisted perspective

Answer 2

• Wall and Tower
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Jerico, Jordan
• Protective wall and watch tower
• very technologically advanced

Question 3

Answer 3

• Human skull with restored features
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Jerico, Jordan
• Human skull with features put back on
• Creates “portrait” of ancestors to worship

Question 4

Answer 4

• Human figure
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Ain Ghazal, Jordan
• sculptures found - largest filled with reeds and chords plastered and painted on outside
• no realistic features
• earliest large scale sculptures

Question 5

Answer 5

• Hagar Qim, Malta
• Megalithic (large) architecture
• Stone blocks laid in courses
  
  • post and lintel construction - 2 verticle posts, 1 horizontal lintel on top
• animals and designs decorate stones (spirals)
• very sophisticated for its time

Question 6

Answer 6

• Stonehenge
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Southwest England
• Post and lintel construction
• maybe sacrificial area at one time
• maybe clock, compass

Question 7

Answer 7

• Catal Hoyuk Painting
• 8,000-3,000 BC
• Town in central Turkey
• Painting depicting close buildings and volcano with first “architectural” plan
• Close buildings served as security measure
• first landscape painting with neither humans nor animals