Pre- Historic Flashcards
Seeks to establish what, when, by whom and for whom
Practical approach
the whys and its relationship the social, economic, political, cultural and religous environment
Historical approach
Explains how styles change and how they do so
Aesthetic approach
Old stone age where Cro-Magnon man used chipped stones
Paleolithic (30,000- 10,000BC)
Period that uses pigments for bodily ornamentation
Mousterian
Period that does cave paintings
Aurignacian
Period that has the last hunt of gatherers. Art has engravings on animal bone
Magdalenian
stumpy female figure for fertility that features pendulous breasts and an obese middle and belly.
Venus of Willendorf
Glacial ice has melted and food has disappeared. Beginnings of communities and farming.
Invention of pottery, bow and arrow, food storage, domestication of animals
Mesolithic age (10,000-8,000BC)
technique wherein you incise the designs onto the surface
Sgraffito
Mud bricks were first used. Developed agriculture and settled in permanent villages
Neolithic/Stone Age (7,000-3,000BC)
Type of art that is first introduced as storage of food
Pottery
Plastered walls for insulation and sound proof
Dabbing
Group of Menhir in circles
Cromlech
Conical, stone-roofed
Trullo
To put stone on top of the others
Corbelling
Large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with other stones
Megalith
A large, single upright, standing alone
Menhir
A free standing chamber, consisting of standing stones covered by a capstone as a lid. For burial architecture
Dolmen
Upright slab forming a part of a large structure
Orthostat
Stone circle
Cromlech
Linear arrangement of upright, parallel standing stones
Stone row
A straight standing stone, topped with another. Forming a T shape
Taula
Two parallel upright stones with a horizontal stone (lintel). Ex. Stonehenge
Trilithon
