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| Homo sapiens appeared when? |
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| The sub-species homo sapien sapien, to which we belong, appeared when? |
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about 120,000 years ago
38,000 - 30,000 BCE |
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| THREE PHASES OF PALEOLITHIC |
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Upper (most recent)
Middle
Lower (oldest) |
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| A middle, or transitional period, identified in some areas by archaeologists. |
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| Dates for Neolithic period |
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| 3000 to 8000 BCE depending upon location |
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Before the Common Era
(Before the birth of christ, before the christian era) |
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Common Era
(the time period beginning with christ's birth; coinciding with the christian era) |
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western Arnhem Land, Australia
6000 BCE |
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| Representational images in Australia, Africa and Europe began around what date? |
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| The earliest stone tools date to when and where? |
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Around 2.5 million years ago
Sites like Olduvi Gorge, Tanzania |
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About when did sophisticated stone tools appear?
Why did this change develop? |
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| 1.65 million years ago, due to cognitive changes and the development of manual dexterity |
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| Neanderthals appeared when and where? |
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400,000 years ago
late Middle Paleolithic period
Europe
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| Homo sapiens sapiens outlasted Neaderthals due to what ability? |
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| The mental capacity to solve problems of human survival, Including recognizing and benefiting from variations in environment, social networking and forming of alliances, and thinking symbolically. |
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| What are the worlds oldest art pieces, how old are they and where did they come from? |
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| Two engraved blocks of red ocher, from Africa, 77,000 years ago. |
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| Describe early architecture from the Upper Paleolithic period. |
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Circular oval huts of curved branches and hides with floors, measuring 15 - 20' in diameter (Woodlands)
Settlements in Ukraine and Russia of long curving tusks of the wooley mammoth. |
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Small figurines of people and animals appeared in Europe and Asia when?
Made of What?
In present day, what term describes these? |
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30,000 BCE
Bone, ivory, stone and clay
"Sculpture in the round" |
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THE LION-HUMAN
Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
30,000-26,000 BCE
Ivory |
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THE WOMAN FROM WILLENDORF
Australia
24,000 BCE
Limestone |
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Woman from Dolni Vestonice
Moravia, Czech Republic
23,000 BCE
Fired Clay |
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Woman from Brassempouy
Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, France
30,000 BCE
Ivory |
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| Those generalized elements that reside in our standard memory of a human head. |
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Rainbow Serpent Rock
Western Arnhem Land, Australia
6000 BCE |
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CHAUVET CAVE
VALLON-PONT-D'ARC,
ARDECHE GORGE, FRANCE
32,000-30,000, BCE
PAINT ON LIMESTONE |
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HALL OF BULLS, LASCAUX CAVE
DORDOGNE, FRANCE
15,000 BCE
PAINT ON LIMESTONE |
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BIRD-HEADED MAN WITH BISON
LASCAUX CAVE
DORDOGNE, FRANCE
15,000 BCE
PAINT ON LIMESTONE |
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BISON
Cave painting at Altamira, Spain
12,500 BCE
Paint on limestone |
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BISON RELIEF SCULPTURE
LE TUC D'AUDOUBERT, FRANCE
13,000 BCE
UNBAKED CLAY |
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Pose in which heads and bodies are rendered in profile, but horns, eyes and hooves are seen from the front.
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Lamp with Ibex Design
La Mouthe cave
Dordogne, France
15,000 - 13,000 BCE
engraved stone |
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Human Fish Sculpture
Lepenski Vir, Serbia
6300 - 5500 BCE
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Tomb with corbeling and engraved stones
Newgrange, Ireland
3000-2500 BCE
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Japan's Jomon Pottery
12,000 BCE |
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HUMAN FIGURE
Ain Ghazal, Jordon
6500 BCE
Fired lime plastered with cowrie shell, bitumen and paint |
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Gold face mask
Tomb 3, Varna 1, Bulgaria
Neolithic, 3800 BCE
Terra Cotta and Gold |
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GOLD SCEPTERS
VARNA, BULGARIA
3800 BCE |
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FIGURES OF MAN AND WOMAN
Cernavoda, Romania
4500 BCE
Ceramic |
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| Ceramic technology emerged when and where? |
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Japan's Jomon culture of hunter-gatherers
12,000 BCE |
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Franchthi Cave, Greece
early pottery
Initial usage |
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| ceremonies especially where medicinal or narcotic plants where used. |
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| Role of the human form in Neolithic figurines |
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| They mark the emergence of the human body as the core location of the human identity. |
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| When and where did metallurgy develop? |
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What were the first uses of metal?
When was this? |
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Ornamentation and jewelry
Late Neolithic period
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| The period that followed the introduction of metalworking |
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What is bronze?
What were typical uses? |
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an alloy of tin and copper
used especially for weapons such as daggers and short swords |
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| DESCRIBE THE PALEOLITHIC TIME PERIOD AND THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ART |
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3 phases: lower, middle, upper
Art in the sense of image making began in upper
homo sapiens sapiens emerged in upper
Representational images emerged about 38,000 BCE in Australia, Africa and Europe
Cave paintings, relief images in caves, scupture in the round, Jomon pottery |
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Megaliths were used to erect ceremonial structures and tombs.
These tombs first appeared in the Neolithic period.
Stonehenge is the best known megalithic monument
Passage graves, i.e., Newgrange, Ireland
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| NEOLITHIC PERIOD, TIME PERIOD AND CHARACTERISTICS OF ART |
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8,000 -3,000 BCE
Pottery, sculpture, ceramics, death masks, scepters, metallurgy |
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BRONZE AGE
Time period, characteristics of art |
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4000 BCE - 500 BCE
ornamentation, jewelry, scepters, rock carving (think Sweden)
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3 DIMENSIONAL FIGURINES
made of ivory, bone, clay, stone
30,000 BCE |
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Sculpture extending outward from a surface |
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| The reduction of shapes and appearances to basic yet recognizable forms that are not intended to be exact replications of nature. |
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| A type of relief in which damp clay is shaped |
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| A megalith tomb, built on the post-and-lintel principle. |
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| A simple megalith tomb which is mounded over with rocks and earth to form an artificial hill. |
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Two upright posts support a horizontal element.
Many variations exist, including stone megaliths and wood.
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Rows or layers of stone are laid with the end of each row projecting beyond the row beneath, progressing until opposing layers almost meet and can then be capped with a stone that rests across the tops of both layers.
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| A circle of stones or posts, often surrounded by a ditch with built-up embankments. |
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| Joints made by a conical projection at the top of each upright (stone or post) that fits like a peg into a hole in the lintel. |
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| An alloy of tin and copper, made for strength |
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