Why prehistoric humans may have painted on cave walls

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Assignment:

Prehistory

1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans began to live in villages. How did this affect their art work respectively?

2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the Paleolithic period? What were some of the techniques used? Define flying gallop. What does the term refer to?

3. What are some of the theories why Prehistoric humans may have painted on cave walls?

4.What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic monuments in Europe?

5. What might the appearance of metals mean to early humans?

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Works of Art:

PREHISTORIC ART

Upper Paleolithic Art (c. 42,000-8000 BCE) Define the following

Lion-Human from Hohlenstein-Stadel

Woman from Willendorf

Architecture: (mammoth-bone house, Ukraine)

Cave and rock paintings, sculpture

Pech-Merle Cave

Chauvet Cave

Lascaux Cave

Altamira

Bison, Le Tuc d'Audoubert

Art in the Neolithic Period (8000-3400/2300 BCE)

Sculpture (Woman and Man from Cernavoda)

Village settlements (Catal Hoyuk)

Megalithic Architecture

Newgrange, Ireland

Stonehenge

Vocabulary:

sculpture in the round

relief sculpture

abstraction

stylization

attributes

modeling

flying gallop

ceramics

Post-and-lintel construction

corbeling

dolmen

capstones

cairn

passage graves

henge

incised

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