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1. Apollo 11 Stones correct answers Form:
-stones with charcoal drawings of animals
-geometric designs
- 4-5"
Function:
- depict animals
=some of world's oldest works of art
Content:
- animal figures with human legs added on probably later
Context:
- found in Apollo 11 caves in Namibia
-probably were made about 25500 BCE (oldest representational art in Africa) and buried in
these caves
-named because it was discovered at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing
2. Great Hall of the Bulls correct answers Form:
-naturalistic charcoal drawings in a cave
-natural materials: plants, charcoal, iron ore
-twisted perspective
- human are stick figures while animals are realistic looking
Content:
- pictures animals in motion
- pictures on top of pictures (all from different artists from many time periods)
-cows, bulls, horses, deer
-650 paintings
Function:
- to show an animal ritual (very unusual to find pictures of humans/hunting)
-ancestral animal worship
Context:
-sacred place (deep in a cave)- in situ
-not a dwelling because the creators of these were nomads
-Paleolithic Europe- Lascaux, France
3. Camelid sacrum correct answers Form:
- carved bone
Function:
-spiritual mask
-house spiritual essence of a hunted animal
-sacrum bone powerful symbolism of Osiris and rebirth- triangle
Content:
- sacrum bone (hip bone) carved in shape of a canine/wolf
Context:
-found in a tomb in Mexico (MesoAmerica)
-14000-7000 BCE
4. Running horned woman correct answers Form:
,- canyon painting (layers of painting from different times so makes it hard for carbon dating)
-depicts motion
Function;
- show this person as holy or a god bc of the horns
Content:
- shows a woman with horns running
- dots on her body represent body painting
- shows a deity wearing ceremonial headgear?
Context:
- in situ on canyon walls in the Sahara
- 6000-4000 BCE (neolithic)
5. Bushel with ibex motifs correct answers Form:
-painted terra cotta, clay
- geometric forms
- set in registers, controlled and repeated planar composition
Function:
-funerary object
Content:
-dog figures, mountain goat, cranes
Context:
- Susa, Iran in 4200-3500 BCE
-neolithic
-new technology: use of potter's wheel
6. Anthropomorphic stele correct answers Form:
-sandstone
Content:
- 3 of them all 3ft tall
-belted robe with knife hanging from it
Function:
- used in incense trade
-religious/burial practices
Context:
-found on trade routes in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia
-fourth millennium
7. Jade cong correct answers Form:
- carved jade
-low reliefs
-abstract designs
- square with a circle inside
Function:
-jade usually appears in burials of high ranked people
Content:
-low reliefs
decorations on this refer to spirits/ deities
Context:
- Liangshzu, China in 3300-2200 BCE
-jade in China is linked with virtues like beauty, durability, and subtlety
,8. Stonehenge correct answers Form:
- sandstone
-post and lintel (two vertical posts support a horizontal beam)
- arranged in a circle (cromlech)
Content:
- stones in a centralized plan
-small stones surrounding in no specific pattern
Function:
- probably religious ceremionies
- burial?
- marker of mid-summer solstice
Context:
-Wiltshire, UK in 2500-1600 BCE
9. The Ambum stone correct answers Form:
-greywacke stone
Content:
-sculpted to look like an anteater
-human/animal characteristics (mostly animal)
Function:
- objects like these are believed to have supernatural power
- used as a spirit stone in rituals
Context:
- Ambun Valley, Papua New Guinea around 1500 BCE
10. Tlatico female figure correct answers Form:
-ceramic
Content:
- pinched waist and big hips with two-heads
- no hands or feet
-naked except for jewelry
Function:
- show fertility
-two heads represent life and death that happens everyday
Context:
- Central Mexico in 1200-900 BCE
-many of the other figures show deformities like this
11. Terra cotta fragment correct answers Form:
-terra cotta with dentate stamping
Content:
-dentate designs (circles, hatching, dots)
Function:
-unknown
Context:
- Lapita peoples
- Solomon Islands, Reef Islands in 1000 BCE
12. White Temple and its ziggurat correct answers Form:
, - mud brick
-collosal scale
-built to resemble mountain
Content:
- sloping walls, bent access (ramp up to enter the altar), 3 entrances
-mosaic surface
Function:
- temple that is a meeting place for humans and gods in the center of the city
-votive figures and dedicated to Anu the sky god
-top temple was only for royals or clergy to enter
Context:
- Uruk; Modern day Warka, Iraq
-Sumerian
- 3500-3000 BCE
13. Palette of King Narmer correct answers Form:
-greywacke
-organized in registers
-hierarchic scale
-low relief, twisted perspective
Content:
-Front: Narmer (on large scale) looking on the beheaded bodies of his enemies wearing
crown of lower Egypt, harnessed lionesses (symbol of unification), bull knowcking down a
city fortress (Narmer knocking over enemies)
-Back: Hawk=Horus, Narmer wearing bowling pin crown (symbol of unification), stands
barefoot (he is a divine king), palette for eye makeup, hieroglyphics
Function:
-represents the unification of Egypt and country's growth as a powerful nation
Context:
-found in temple of Horus
-Old Kingdom of Egypt
-3000 BCE
14. Statues of votive figures correct answers Form:
- bilateral symmetry
- eyes exaggeration (beholding the divine)
-gypsum and black limestone
Content:
-the hands are placed in prayful gesture
- elite male and female figures
Function:
-placed in ziggurat to resemble the people that aren't allowed to be in the ziggurats
Context;
- found in the Square Temple of Eshunna (modern day Tell Asmur, Iraq)
-2700 BCE
15. Seated Scribe correct answers Form:
-painted limestone
-crystal limestone eyes
Content:
Questions + A+ Verified Answers!!
1. Apollo 11 Stones correct answers Form:
-stones with charcoal drawings of animals
-geometric designs
- 4-5"
Function:
- depict animals
=some of world's oldest works of art
Content:
- animal figures with human legs added on probably later
Context:
- found in Apollo 11 caves in Namibia
-probably were made about 25500 BCE (oldest representational art in Africa) and buried in
these caves
-named because it was discovered at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing
2. Great Hall of the Bulls correct answers Form:
-naturalistic charcoal drawings in a cave
-natural materials: plants, charcoal, iron ore
-twisted perspective
- human are stick figures while animals are realistic looking
Content:
- pictures animals in motion
- pictures on top of pictures (all from different artists from many time periods)
-cows, bulls, horses, deer
-650 paintings
Function:
- to show an animal ritual (very unusual to find pictures of humans/hunting)
-ancestral animal worship
Context:
-sacred place (deep in a cave)- in situ
-not a dwelling because the creators of these were nomads
-Paleolithic Europe- Lascaux, France
3. Camelid sacrum correct answers Form:
- carved bone
Function:
-spiritual mask
-house spiritual essence of a hunted animal
-sacrum bone powerful symbolism of Osiris and rebirth- triangle
Content:
- sacrum bone (hip bone) carved in shape of a canine/wolf
Context:
-found in a tomb in Mexico (MesoAmerica)
-14000-7000 BCE
4. Running horned woman correct answers Form:
,- canyon painting (layers of painting from different times so makes it hard for carbon dating)
-depicts motion
Function;
- show this person as holy or a god bc of the horns
Content:
- shows a woman with horns running
- dots on her body represent body painting
- shows a deity wearing ceremonial headgear?
Context:
- in situ on canyon walls in the Sahara
- 6000-4000 BCE (neolithic)
5. Bushel with ibex motifs correct answers Form:
-painted terra cotta, clay
- geometric forms
- set in registers, controlled and repeated planar composition
Function:
-funerary object
Content:
-dog figures, mountain goat, cranes
Context:
- Susa, Iran in 4200-3500 BCE
-neolithic
-new technology: use of potter's wheel
6. Anthropomorphic stele correct answers Form:
-sandstone
Content:
- 3 of them all 3ft tall
-belted robe with knife hanging from it
Function:
- used in incense trade
-religious/burial practices
Context:
-found on trade routes in the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia
-fourth millennium
7. Jade cong correct answers Form:
- carved jade
-low reliefs
-abstract designs
- square with a circle inside
Function:
-jade usually appears in burials of high ranked people
Content:
-low reliefs
decorations on this refer to spirits/ deities
Context:
- Liangshzu, China in 3300-2200 BCE
-jade in China is linked with virtues like beauty, durability, and subtlety
,8. Stonehenge correct answers Form:
- sandstone
-post and lintel (two vertical posts support a horizontal beam)
- arranged in a circle (cromlech)
Content:
- stones in a centralized plan
-small stones surrounding in no specific pattern
Function:
- probably religious ceremionies
- burial?
- marker of mid-summer solstice
Context:
-Wiltshire, UK in 2500-1600 BCE
9. The Ambum stone correct answers Form:
-greywacke stone
Content:
-sculpted to look like an anteater
-human/animal characteristics (mostly animal)
Function:
- objects like these are believed to have supernatural power
- used as a spirit stone in rituals
Context:
- Ambun Valley, Papua New Guinea around 1500 BCE
10. Tlatico female figure correct answers Form:
-ceramic
Content:
- pinched waist and big hips with two-heads
- no hands or feet
-naked except for jewelry
Function:
- show fertility
-two heads represent life and death that happens everyday
Context:
- Central Mexico in 1200-900 BCE
-many of the other figures show deformities like this
11. Terra cotta fragment correct answers Form:
-terra cotta with dentate stamping
Content:
-dentate designs (circles, hatching, dots)
Function:
-unknown
Context:
- Lapita peoples
- Solomon Islands, Reef Islands in 1000 BCE
12. White Temple and its ziggurat correct answers Form:
, - mud brick
-collosal scale
-built to resemble mountain
Content:
- sloping walls, bent access (ramp up to enter the altar), 3 entrances
-mosaic surface
Function:
- temple that is a meeting place for humans and gods in the center of the city
-votive figures and dedicated to Anu the sky god
-top temple was only for royals or clergy to enter
Context:
- Uruk; Modern day Warka, Iraq
-Sumerian
- 3500-3000 BCE
13. Palette of King Narmer correct answers Form:
-greywacke
-organized in registers
-hierarchic scale
-low relief, twisted perspective
Content:
-Front: Narmer (on large scale) looking on the beheaded bodies of his enemies wearing
crown of lower Egypt, harnessed lionesses (symbol of unification), bull knowcking down a
city fortress (Narmer knocking over enemies)
-Back: Hawk=Horus, Narmer wearing bowling pin crown (symbol of unification), stands
barefoot (he is a divine king), palette for eye makeup, hieroglyphics
Function:
-represents the unification of Egypt and country's growth as a powerful nation
Context:
-found in temple of Horus
-Old Kingdom of Egypt
-3000 BCE
14. Statues of votive figures correct answers Form:
- bilateral symmetry
- eyes exaggeration (beholding the divine)
-gypsum and black limestone
Content:
-the hands are placed in prayful gesture
- elite male and female figures
Function:
-placed in ziggurat to resemble the people that aren't allowed to be in the ziggurats
Context;
- found in the Square Temple of Eshunna (modern day Tell Asmur, Iraq)
-2700 BCE
15. Seated Scribe correct answers Form:
-painted limestone
-crystal limestone eyes
Content:
