Art 133-World Art History I
Study Guide, Chapter 1 Prehistoric Art
Pictures/Slides from Text
1. 1.1, Wounded Bison, cave painting, 15-10,000 BCE, Altamira, Spain
2. 1.4, Rhinoceros, wounded man and Bison, cave painting, 15-13,000
BCE, Lascaux Cave, France
3. 1.8, Hall of the Bulls, cave painting, 15-13,000 BCE, Lascaux Cave
France
4. 1.9, Hybrid Figure, ivory sculpture, 30,000 BCE, Germany
5. 1.10, Horse, ivory sculpture, 28,000 BCE, Vogelherd Cave, Germany
6. 1.12, Two Bison, modeled clay, 13,000 BCE, Le Tuc d' Auboubert
Cave, France
7. 1.13 Dame a' la Capuche (Woman from Brassempouy), 22,000 BCE,
France
8. 1.16, Neolithic Plastered Skull, 7,000 BCE, Jericho, Jordan
9. 1.19, 1.20, 1.21, Catal Huyuk, early settlement, 6,000 BCE, Turkey
10.
1.22, Male and Female Figures, clay sculptures, 3,500 BCE,
Cernavoda, Romania
11.
1.24, Menhir alignments at Me'nec, Megalithic structure, 4,2503,750 BCE, Carnac, France
12.
1.25, 1.26, Stonehenge, megalithic structure, 2,100 BCE,
Wiltshire, England
Facts/Information from Text
13.
The Prehistoric Period is part of the Archeological time scale
denoted by “BCE” which stands for the time Before the Common Era.
14.
The BCE timescale counts backwards from the common era, thus
the larger the number, the farther back in history the date.
15.
Though fully modern humans have lived on the earth for over
100,000 years, the dates assigned to the earliest objects classed as art,
go back about 40,000 years.
16.
Art emerges at about the time that fully modern humans (homo
sapiens) moved out of Africa and into Europe, Asia, and Australia.
17.
The most commonly used technique for dating organic artifacts is
called radio-metric dating.
18.
The most common interpretation of the inspiration for Prehistoric
art works is thought to be magico-religious.
19.
The Late Stone Age or Upper Paleolithic Period is dated between
40,000 and 11,000 BCE.
20.
The New Stone Age or Mesolithic Period, marked by a decline in
the creation of art, is dated between 11,000 and 8,000 BCE.
21.
The Neolithic Period, marked by a techno revolution and drastic
change in the lifestyle of primative people is dated between 8,000 and
4,500 BCE.
22.
The end of the Prehistoric Period, marked by the invention of
written language around 5,000 BCE, changed greatly the study of
ancient cultures.
23.
Some of the new technologies developed during the Neolithic
Period include, pottery, weaving and smelting of copper and lead.
24.
Neolithic people of western and northern Europe defined spaces
for tombs and rituals with huge blocks of stone known as Megaliths.
25.
A major shift in the lifestyle for prehistoric people came with the
switch from hunting and gathering food to agriculture and the
domestication of animals around 8,000 BCE.