“_____ Stone Age” Neolithic Age “_____ Stone Age” Description of Tools How Humans Obtained Food (Men did what? Women did what?) Where/How Humans Lived Dates 7. Domestication (or to domesticate) means… 8. What is Lascaux? 9. The name of the system used by farmers to water their crops is ______________________‚ and what effect did it have on settlements? 10. How does a surplus lead to specialization? (What do both of these terms mean?) 11. Over thousands
Premium Mesopotamia Sumer
religious expression. Cultures could use art to document their ritual‚ or pay respect to their gods or deities and have been doing this since the Paleolithic era of hunting and gathering. For example‚ when art historians look at the cave paintings in the Lascaux Cave in France‚ some believe what they are seeing is a religious ritual where the hunters are asking the gods or deities for a successful hunt. They base this conclusion by comparing the size and detail of the animals vs. the smaller size and lack
Premium Family Woman Marriage
GRA 111 CHAPTER 1 The Invention of Writing Cave painting from Lascaux‚ c. 15‚000-10‚000 bce. Random placement and shifting scale signify prehistoric people’s lack of structure and sequence in recording their experience. Media: Ground pigments – charcoal for black‚ yellows‚ reds and browns from iron oxides Binder – animal fat Substrate – (aka: ground) cave walls and ceilings Application – fingers‚ reed brushes or breath Chauvet Caves Two periods of production: 27‚000-26
Premium Ancient Egypt Egyptian hieroglyphs
Venus of Willendorf from Willendorf‚ Austria 28‚000 – 25‚000 BCE Limestone Naturhistorisches Museum‚ Vienna Paleolithic - representation of a woman - female anatomy is exaggerated - serves as a fertility image - no facial features‚ just hair/hat - freestanding sculpture Statuettes of 2 worshipers from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)‚ Iraq 2700 BCE (early dynastic/Sumerian) Soft gypsum and inlaid with shell + black limestone Iraq Museum‚ Baghdad - represent mortals praying
Premium Statue Venus of Willendorf Venus figurines
The notion of visual literacy has been transforming the age of digital learning and reflecting the transformation of datagogies for quite some time. Classical and Medieval theories of memory and learning‚ for instance‚ placed a strong emphases on how the visual format of words and lines affected the ordering of information in the mind. During the Enlightenment new emphasis was placed on training the senses through print and graphic technologies in a way that benefitted the rising middle class.[1]
Premium Literacy Graphic design Visual literacy
that spread all across the maya region. According to David‚ the Maya’s view of their universe saw a ruler as having divine powers. Also in the text from Warfare in Ancient Mesoamerica by Payson D Sheets (AltaMira press‚ 2003) who argues that the collapse of the Maya civilization was a result of military expansion agrees with the view point that the rulers divine powers could influence the gods by by bloodletting
Premium War Agriculture Mesoamerica
A.P. World History Guided Reading 1 "The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations” TERMS: Culture - Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship)
Premium Neolithic Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt
will no longer wear diamonds‚ along with the previously banished furs and animal vivisection. This is a powerful message‚ sent to an audience of millions‚ which has monetary and socio-political implications worldwide. Unlike the cave painters of Lascaux or the hieroglyphic pictographs of Mesopotamia‚ this message will be heard by many‚ not just idle passersby. This new art form‚ the Hollywood movie‚ compared to methods used in the past to depict the message of its author‚ is dynamic in its theme
Premium Sierra Leone Diamond Blood Diamond
"Art does not exist unless it is shared‚ it requires both artist and audience." Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim made above. Use relevant reasons and examples to support your point of view. The statement "Art does not exist unless it is shared‚ it requires both artist and audience" suggests that art must to be shared for if it is not shared it has no worth. In other words‚ the public is the driving force for what is deemed art‚ and if at one point the artwork is not
Premium Ancient Egypt Cave painting Art
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight‚[4] it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia (where an endangered remnant population resides in Gir Forest National Park in India) while other types of lions have disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene‚ about 10
Premium Lion Africa