AP Art History, Ms. Ferrell
Unit #1 Study Guide: Global Prehistory (Stokstad Ch 1 + select others)
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Beginning of Architecture
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Beginning of Sculpture
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Beginning of Painting (Cave Art)
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Neolithic Period (8,000-2,300BCE):
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The Bronze Age (2,300-1,000BCE):
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(Pre) Historical & Cultural Context:
Upper Paleolithic Period (40,000-8,000BCE)
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The Iron Age (1,000BCE):
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AP Art History, Ms. Ferrell
Unit #1 Study Guide: Global Prehistory (Stokstad Ch 1 + select others)
Name:
Period:
Key Terms: Define these terms on your Q-Cards + Draw a picture if needed.
Sculpture in the Round
Incised
Post and Lintel Construction
Rock Art
Mobiliary Art
Relief Sculpture (high and low)
Abstraction
Modeling
Relative Dating
Corbelled vaulted
Burial Chamber /Necropolis
Palimpsest
Stele
Anthropomorphic
Memory Image
Wattle & Daub
Monolithic
Zoomorphic
Q-Card List: Use this chart as the “Skeleton” for you Q-Cards. Fill in with notes from lecture & reading on (4X6 in) note cards
* These are categories to learn for the Slide Identification Quiz & Unit Tests
“+” Ms Ferrell’s Choice (included beyond the “250” for context and interest)
*Artist:
Map of
Ch 1
*Title:
*Date/Period:
*Function/Content/
#’rd works are part of the 250
(learn the period)
+ Prehistoric Migration of
People
35,000-3,5000
BCE
Meaning:
* Copy info from
website
#1 Apollo 11 stones.
*Location/Culture:
Material:
Upper Paleolithic
25,500 BCE
Upper Paleolithic
Evidence of Symbolic
Thought
Drawing of an Animal
found buried in
caves/tombs
Namibia, Africa
Charcoal on
Stone
#2 Great Hall of the Bulls
15,000–13,000
BCE Paleolithic
Ceremonial cave
paintings
Lascaux, France
Cave Wall with
Pigment
#3 Camelid Sacrum
14,000–7000
BCE Paleolithic
Pelvic bone in the shape
of a dog head, Possible
Mask
Cave painting, showing
phases of development
Central Mexico
Bone
Algeria, Africa
Pigment on
Rock
Utilitarian &
Decorative vessel
Susa, Iran
Painted terra
cotta, Ceramic
Religious and Burial/
Funerary
Arabian Peninsula
Sandstone
Symbolic of Power?
Found in tombs
Liangzu, China
Jade
Monolithic Stones
Circular Arrangement,
Astronomical Observation
Center
United Kingdom
Sandstone
Zoomorphic
sculpture (similar to
mortar & pestles)
Female figures
representing duality
Paupa New Guinea,
The Pacific
Greywake
Stone
Central Mexico
Ceramic
Utilitarian and
decorative (Similar to
bark painting(
Burial Figures
Reef Islands, Near
Australia
Terra Cotta
Cycladic Islands, off
Greece
Marble
#4 Running Horned Woman.
6000–4000 BCE
#5 Beaker with Ibex Motifs
4200–3500 BCE
#6 Anthropomorphic stele.
5,000 BCE
Neolithic
Neolithic
Neolithic
#7 Cong
3300–2200 BCE
#8 Stonehenge (2 images)
2500–1600 BCE
#9 The Ambum Stone
#10 Tlatilco female figurine
#11 Terra cotta fragment
+ Cycladic Figures: Woman
+ Man with Harp
Neolithic
Neolithic
1500 BCE
Bronze Age
1200–900 BCE
Bronze Age
1000 BCE
Bronze Age
2,800 BCE
Neolithic Aegean
Key Concepts:
• Why “man” made “Art”? Aesthetic Human Spirit
• FUNCTIONS OF ART: (URIPHEA)
o U – utilitarian
o R – religious/ritual/spiritual
o I – information/communication
o P – political/power/propaganda
o H – historical record (before books, Wikipedia, the news and social media)
o E – economic (goods for trade)
o A – aesthetic (beauty and pleasure)
• These artifacts from Unit #1 tell us how the earliest humans lived, what they believed, how they grouped
and eventually formed civilizations
• Advancements in building techniques and innovations eventually lead to permanent dwellings
• People began to specialize in certain aspects of life and create culture
AP Art History, Ms. Ferrell
Unit #1: Global Prehistory (stokstad Ch 1, 2, + select others)
(Top and Bottom Same Card) (Both on Same Card) Name:
Period: