What changes occurred between the Paleolithic ('Old Stone Age') to the Neolithic ('New Stone
Age') period?
Explain why calling a prehistoric figure a "woman" instead of "Venus" frees us to think about
the object in new and different ways.
Refer to at least three works of art in explaining how Paleolithic works of art show an aesthetic
sense.
What evidence is there that some megalithic monuments, such as Stonehenge, may have had a
relationship to celestial events in the calendar?
Compare any prehistoric work to something that is created in present day.
Click here for a pretty good Prehistoric website:
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/s/stoneage.html
TERMS TO KNOW
sculpture in the round
relief sculpture
abstraction
low relief
ware
modeling
post-and-lintel construction
henge
relative dating
corbeling
dolmen
cairn
incising
capstones
passage grave
Artwork to remember
Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Hall of Bulls (Lascaux) - Cool website
Skara Brae (Scotland)
Tombs of Newgrange (Ireland)
Woman from Willendorf (Austria)
Cave Paintings (Altamira, Spain)
Woman from Brassempouy (France)