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Assignment: Neolithic vs Paleolithic Figurative Representation
1. In the textbook, a criterion of intentional manipulation emphasizes that an object for its classified qualification as art is essential. Why such measures, and how would you qualify a thing like Pebble resembling a face, Makapansgat as art?
2. How is it that in the Paleolithic period, the human figurative representation appears differently portrayed for its representation in the Neolithic period? Have you detected any variation in the presentation of the two phases of art? If so, explain.
3. Why is it that images of men were less prevalent in Paleolithic art than images of women? Could you explain?
4. Identify evidence of the Sumerian cultures lasting influence today.
5. Is Egyptian art similar stylistically to any Mesopotamian culture from that time? Which culture and how are they similar or different in style and cultural context?
6. Why does a change in religion bring about a change in art in ancient Egypt?
7. Who are the figures being depicted in the Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer?
8. Describe the rendering of the human form and compare it to earlier depictions of humans dating back to the Palette of Narmer.
9. What do you think are possible functions for Mesopotamian Standard of Ur wood lapis lazuli?
10. From what civilization Agriculture, the wheel and animal domestication stood out?
11. What implication Hammurabi laws have on all others thereafter to our own contemporary civilization? Explain.