Q1: Lesson 1 | Prehistoric Time Flashcards
It means before history or before written history
Prehistoric time
Some of earliest examples of surviving artworks are ____________
Cave drawings
The most popular subject for cave drawings were ____________
Animals
Purpose of cave artworks is used for __________ ____________, such as praying for a successful hunt or commemorate a successful one.
Ritualistic ceremonies
Artifact made during prehistoric time were huge stone structure called ________
Megaliths
One of the most famous examples of megaliths is ___________
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is found in _________ around 1,500 B. C. E
England
Is a stone usually standing vertical on the middle of the field. It is commonly arranged in rows.
Menhir
Is a stone structure in form of a table. It consists of two huge standing stones that support a horizontal giant stone. It is believed that this served as a grave or as an altar
Dolmen
Is a circle of a standing stone
Cromlech
In the Philippines, one of the oldest artifacts was discovered in 1965, in a cave in ________ ___________.
Angono Rizal
One of the oldest artifacts in the Philippines was discovered in a cave in Angono, Rizal. This is called the _________ __________
Angono Petroglyphs
It was located where Syria and Iraq are today
Mesopotamia
Were one of the most dominant group found in the region
Sumerians
The Sumerians were the first to develop a writing system called _________
Cuneiform
It used series of shapes and lines to represent an object and were written on clay tables
Cuneiform
Are pyramid-like structure whose sides are made of steps
Sumerian ziggurat
Is the coffin of the Pharaoh
Sarcophagus
It is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width, and depth. It is one of the plastic arts.
Sculpture
Is a style of sculpture where designs or images are set against a flat background. Is one of the oldest and earliest known forms of sculpting. There are records of relief sculptures that date as far back as cave art from the Upper Paleolithic period
Relief sculpture
Are the written language of the ancient Egyptians
Hieroglyphs
Is a monumental sculpture of a mythical creature that has the head of a man and a body of lion
The great sphinx
Is a buffalo, a bovine mammal from western North America, which has large forequarters, a shaggy mane, and a massive head with short curved horns
Bison
Is an assemblage of giant stones in Southern England
Stonehenge
