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Art 103 HSU
Prehistoric Art Slide Quiz #1
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Undergraduate 1
09/12/2013

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Woman of Willendorf, 28,000-25,000 BCE
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Upper Paleolithic Period
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Old Stone Age, c. 40,000-10,000 BP, Ice Age
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Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux, France, c. 15,000 BCE

Discovered 1940

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Bison, Altamira Cave, Spain, c. 12,000 BCE
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Spotted Horse (25,000-24,000 BCE) and Hands (15,000 BCE), Pech Merle Cave, France
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Neolithic
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(From Greek neo= new, lithos= stone), New Stone age, Began 10,200 BCE
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Sumer/Sumerians
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Ancient civilization living is Mesopotamia. Started farming, domesticating animals, creating early art, lived in fixed settlements, used writing. Invented wheel, plow, casted metals, created first eic literature (Epic of Gilgamesh)
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Cuneiform
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Earliest form of writing used by the Sumer. Started as pictographs, ended up smaller and more abstract.
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Ziggurat
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A filled in sloped platform with a temple placed at top. Used by the Sumer to worship, thought to be able to come face to face with the divine when inside.
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Shaft Scene, Lascaux, France
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Warka Head/Inanna, 3300-3000 BCE
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Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern day Iraq), c.2100-2050 BCE
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White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk, c.3100 BCE
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Relief Sculpture vs. Sculpture in the Round
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Sculpture in the Round: a free standing sculpture that you can see on all sides.

Relief Sculpture: 2-D sculpture that is raised from a flat surface

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Behistun Inscription, Iran, 522-486 BCE
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Votive Fugures from Eshnunna, 2900-2600 BCE
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Steele of Naram-sin, 2350 BCE
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Steele of Hummurabi, 1792-1750 BCE
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Palette of Narmer, from Hierkonpolis c. 2950-2775
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