Exam 1: Art in the Stone Age

____ is one of the primary characteristics of Neolithic society.

What is a ground line?

Çatal Höyük has a most remarkable mural,a landscape.Which statement best defines the term landscape?

In the Neolithic period,agriculture and raising stock became humankind's major food sources.Which area transitioned to these activities first?

What is a megalith?

The regular appearance of ____ distinguishes paintings produced in the Neolithic period from those in the Paleolithic period.

The emphasis on the anatomy of the nude woman figurine (Venus of Willendorf)suggests early man's interest in ____.

The convention of representing animals' horns in twisted perspective in cave paintings or allowing the viewer to see the head in profile and the horns from the front is termed ____.

The painting rhinoceros,wounded man,and disemboweled bison is unique in Paleolithic art regarding the presence of ____.

Bison licking its flank

Whatever their purpose,one of the most outstanding differences between Neolithic figures,such as the human figure from Ain Ghazal and Paleolithic statues,is ____.

Figures sculpted in the round can be defined as ____.

____ is the location of the most spectacular cave paintings that have been discovered.

What is bitumen?

____ was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art.

One of the suggested purposes for Paleolithic cave paintings is thought to have been ____.

____ is the simplest and oldest method of spanning a passageway.

Monuments from the Neolithic period in western Europe,such as Stonehenge,are characterized by ____.

A henge,or ____,was a type of megalithic monument found almost exclusively in Britain.

The figures in the deer hunt wail painting from Çatal Höyük are rendered in _____,which describes what a human body is,as opposed to its appearance from a specific viewpoint.