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Stone age Flashcards

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What are the characteristics of the patheolothic age

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nomad, sheltered in caves, clothed with animal skin, engraved and pained stone.

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Patheolothic paintings

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The great hall of bulls: Lascaux
Not easily accessible, depicts animals.

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What animals do the patheolothic paintings depict?

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They depict bulls, horses and bisons.

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A sculpture from the patheolothic age

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Sculpture is called venus of Wilendorf.

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How tall is the sculpture, what is the use of the sculpture, what is the meaning of the sculpture, characteristics of the sculpture, what is it made of?

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Its is 11.5cm. Made from stone, represents fertility, love and beauty. Pregnant women use it because they believe their baby will be healthy and lastly, it has enlarged breasts, waist and hips and small hands around the breasts.

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The mesolithic period, what are the characteristics of this period?

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Domestication of animals, small villages forming and agriculture.

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What type of art did they make (mesolithic period)

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Pottery

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What is a ritual?

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A ritual is a solemn and scared ceremony.

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What are the characteristics of a ritual?

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Music, dance, performers, performance space, masks and costumes, audience, speech

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Neolithic period. Characteristics of this period.

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Lived near cultivated fields, villages developed and large stone structures are from this period.

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Architecture of the neolithic period

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Dolmen, leystone and menhir

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What is a cromlech?

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A circular stone structure

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What were cromlechs used for?

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Ritual altars or sum

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what creates bronze?

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Tin and copper

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What are the design principles?

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Balance, scale, harmony, variety, repetition, movement, contrast, emphasis, rythym, proportion

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What are the design elements?

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Line, color, form, shape, space, texture and tone.

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What is an example of art from the iron age

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The lydenburg heads

18
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What is the San’s sacred animal

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Eland

19
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What does eland mean

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It is a sacred antelope for the San people

19
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What is the difference between petroglyphs and pictographs?

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Petroglyphs are engravings and pictographs are rock paintings

20
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What did the San use as pigment

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guano, plants, charcoal and clay and rock

21
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Meaning of anthropomorphic?

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Half animal, half human

22
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Who is Walter Battis?

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A man from Somerset East born into a English Methodist family in 1906, lived on a farm that had San rock Art and his art was inspired by San people.

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What are the characteristics of his art

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Simplified and abstract. No dimension or perspective.

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