Pre- Historic Flashcards

1
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Seeks to establish what, when, by whom and for whom

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Practical approach

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2
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the whys and its relationship the social, economic, political, cultural and religous environment

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Historical approach

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3
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Explains how styles change and how they do so

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Aesthetic approach

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4
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Old stone age where Cro-Magnon man used chipped stones

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Paleolithic (30,000- 10,000BC)

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5
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Period that uses pigments for bodily ornamentation

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Mousterian

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6
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Period that does cave paintings

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Aurignacian

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7
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Period that has the last hunt of gatherers. Art has engravings on animal bone

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Magdalenian

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8
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stumpy female figure for fertility that features pendulous breasts and an obese middle and belly.

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Venus of Willendorf

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9
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Glacial ice has melted and food has disappeared. Beginnings of communities and farming.
Invention of pottery, bow and arrow, food storage, domestication of animals

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Mesolithic age (10,000-8,000BC)

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10
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technique wherein you incise the designs onto the surface

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Sgraffito

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11
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Mud bricks were first used. Developed agriculture and settled in permanent villages

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Neolithic/Stone Age (7,000-3,000BC)

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12
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Type of art that is first introduced as storage of food

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Pottery

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13
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Plastered walls for insulation and sound proof

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Dabbing

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14
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Group of Menhir in circles

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Cromlech

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15
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Conical, stone-roofed

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Trullo

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16
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To put stone on top of the others

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Corbelling

17
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Large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with other stones

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Megalith

18
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A large, single upright, standing alone

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Menhir

19
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A free standing chamber, consisting of standing stones covered by a capstone as a lid. For burial architecture

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Dolmen

20
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Upright slab forming a part of a large structure

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Orthostat

21
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Stone circle

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Cromlech

22
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Linear arrangement of upright, parallel standing stones

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Stone row

23
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A straight standing stone, topped with another. Forming a T shape

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Taula

24
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Two parallel upright stones with a horizontal stone (lintel). Ex. Stonehenge

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Trilithon

25
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Period were copper and tin were widely used. Use of semi- precious stones. Already advanced its pottery

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Bronze age