Prehistory art

Question 1

refers to all human history that precedes the intentional of writing systems (3100 BCE)

Answer 1

prehistory

Question 2

3 parts of stone age

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Paleolithic period or old stone age (30 000-10 000 BCE)
Mesolithic period or middle stone age (10 000-8 000 BCE)
Neolithic period or new stone age (8 000-
3 000 BCE)

Question 3

characterized by the emergence of basic stone tools and stone art in the archaeological record

Answer 3

paleolithic era

Question 4

this are made of clay, bone, ivory, or stone and consist of simple figurines depicting animals and humans

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Paleolithic small sculpture

Question 5

thus figure is the most indicative in paleolithic era

Answer 5

venus figurines

Question 6

Highly stylized depictions of women with
exaggerated female parts representing fertility and sexuality

Answer 6

venus figurines

Question 7

earliest known Venus figurine that dates to at least 35,000 years ago,

Answer 7

Venus of Hohle Fels

Question 8

the most recent Venus figurine dates to roughly 11,000 years ago.

Answer 8

Venus of Monruz

Question 9

type of rock art is typically found in European cave shelters, dating to 40,000–14,000 years ago, when the earth was largely covered in glacial ice.

Answer 9

cave paintings and engraving

Question 10

paleolithic stone tools

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hand axe
scarper
chopper
grinder
hummer
arrow heads
flakes
burins

Question 11

cave paintings and portable art such as
figurines, statuettes, and beads predominated, with decorative figured
workings also seen on some utilitarian objects.

Answer 11

Mesolithic

Question 12

umbrella term for a number of
prehistoric female statuettes portrayed with similar physical attributes

Answer 12

venus figurines

Question 13

mesolithic stone tools

Answer 13

bones and ivory used
blade
core
knives
chisels
triangle
burin
dagger
points

Question 14

saw the transformation of nomad human settlements into agrarian societies in need of permanent shelter.

Answer 14

neolithic

Question 15

From this period there is evidence of early pottery, as well as sculpture, architecture, and the construction of megaliths.

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neolithic

Question 16

neolithic tools

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polished axes
blades
arrowheads
ring stone
sickle
plough
harpoon
muller

Question 17

prehistoric stone age lasted from

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30,000 BCE-3,000 BCE

Question 18

represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.

Answer 18

stone age

Question 19

located in the northwest of Bulgaria and contains a collection of cave paintings, painted with bat excrement that date from
8000-4000 years ago.

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magura cave

Question 20

An excess of _______ paintings has been
discovered in the magura cave, depicting
people dancing and hunting as well as
a wide range of animals.

Answer 20

700

Question 21

located in Patagonia in the southern part of Argentina and contains cave paintings that were created between 13,000 and 9,000 years ago.

Answer 21

Cueva de las Manos

Question 22

what does cueva de las manos mean

Answer 22

cave of hands

Question 23

collection of rock shelters, located in central India and contains over 600 paintings that span the prehistoric paleolithic and mesolithic periods, the oldest of which dates from at least 12,000 years.

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Bhimbetka Rock Shelters

Question 24

depict the lives of the people who resided in the caves, as well as an array of animals that include tigers, lions, and crocodiles.

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Bhimbetka Rock Shelters

Question 25

national park in Brazil which has the largest and the oldest concentration of prehistoric
paintings in the Americas.

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Serra da Capivara

Question 26

located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain. It is renowned for prehistoric parietal cave art featuring
charcoal drawings and polychrome
paintings of contemporary local fauna
and human hands.

Answer 26

Altamira Cave

Question 27

The earliest paintings were applied
during the _________ around
_____years ago. The site was only
discovered in 1868 by _________.

Answer 27

Upper Paleolithic,
36,000
Modesto Cubillas.