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Title: Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux
Culture: Prehistoric
Style: Some animals are colored silhouettes and some are outlines but the different in style and technique suggest different painters created the image at different times |
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Title: Venus of Willondorf
Culture: Prehistoric |
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Title: Altamira Bison
Culture: Prehistoric |
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Title: Stonehedge
Culture: Prehistoric |
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| Which elements of the paintings in the Chauvet cave at Vallon Pont-d' Arc make them stylistically more advanced than the paintings in the cave at Lascaux |
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| the paintings in the Chauvet cave at Vallon Pont-d' Arc have a true profile, are more naturalistic, and there is anecdotal detail which is considered to be the animals interacting with each other |
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| what is the most common subject of cave art? |
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| why do most researchers believe that cave painting were not mere decoration? |
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| The painting were found deep in the caves where no one would go and |
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Title: Deer hunt
Culture: Prehistoric |
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Title: Human figure, Ain Ghazal
Culture:Prehistoric |
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Title: Standard of Ur
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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| What are the attributes that characterise Neolithic society? |
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| Agriculture, domesticated animals, perment settlements that allowed for more complex social structures, religious life, and development of more complex tools, pottery, and weaving |
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| What preconditions made Mesopotamia and Anatolia ideal for the development of sedentary communities? |
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| The technological innovations of the StoneTower built into the wall, the ability to mobilize large groups of peoples and the ability to establish a heiarchy. |
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| Describe the burial practices of the people in Jericho |
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| when a family member would die they would decapitate them and they would keep the skulls in the homes and reconstruct them with plaster and paint them while the bodies would be buried underneath their settlement |
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| what is meant by the term prehistory |
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| before the invention of writing |
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Title: Eshnunna statuetee
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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Title: Bull headed harp
Culture:Mesopotamia |
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Title: Head of an Akkadian Ruler
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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Title: Victory stele of Naram Sin
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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Title: Gudea holding overflowing water jaw
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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Title: Stele with the laws of hammurabi
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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| what is a megalith and an example? |
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| megaliths are huge stones. an example would be the corbelled dome of the main chamber in the passage grave in Newgrange, Ireland or the stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, England |
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| what is composite view? why is composite view so commonly used in prehistoric art? |
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| convention of representation where part of figure is in profile & another part of same figure is shown frontally. it is the most informative view |
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| what is a ziggurat and what material was used to build it? |
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| a ziggurat is a high platform that is made out of mud bricks |
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| who is Inanna and which Sumarian city was considered her home? |
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| she is the goddess of love and war. she considered Uruk to be her home. |
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| How did Queen Napir Assu ensure her statue would be enduring and unmovable? |
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| She made the sculpter make the statue out of a bronze core inside a cast copper shell making it weigh more than 3,000 pounds and she also asked the gods to protect her statue |
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Title: Lamassu, from the citadel of sargon II
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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Title: Ishtar gate
Culture: Mesopotamia |
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| What purpose do the many diorite sculptures of Gudea of Lagash serve |
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| he placed them in all the temples that he built or rebuilt. So the idea was more that there was a way for him to show off how deeply religious he was and to reinforce the idea that he deserved to be king because he was so devoted to the gods. |
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