ARTS 149: EXAM 1
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_____ evidence shows that modern humans moved from Africa, across Asia, and finally to Australia and the Americas between 100,000-35,000 years ago
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Archeological
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Small scale female sculptures from the upper paleolithic period were once called ______ figures which implied religious association although this has yet to be determined.
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Venus
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Continually rebuilt and re-plastered early houses at Catalhoyuk may have functioned as ______.
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Historic Markers
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The simplest form of construction used to span space is _____ and _____.
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Post : Lintel
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The term ______ includes all of human existence prior to the emergence of writing
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Prehistory
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Animals at Lascaux are painted in a system known as _______ which shows horns, eyes, and hoofs from the front with heads and bodies rendered in profile.
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Composite Pose
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Scholars see the transport of the bluestones to Stonehenge from more than 150 miles away as a sign of _______.
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Connections to an ancestral home
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Megalithic tomb architecture reflects _____ in neolithic communities.
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Connections to an ancestral home
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Megalithic tomb architecture reflects _____ in neolithic communities.
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Importance of ritual performance
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Current scholarship suggests that early stone tools functioned socially as _____.
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Status symbols
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The painting of Men Taunting a Deer at Catalhoyuk may represent ______.
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A dangerous ritual or game of baiting
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The Lion-Human may reflect man's early notion that _____.
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Humans and animals were part of one group
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The human figures from Ain Ghaza give the impression of living individuals who _____.
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Are unable to speak
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Stonehenge is connected to a nearby site built of wood called _____.
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Durrington Walls
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Which Neolithic site is an example of a passage grave?
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Newgrange
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Rather than being a product of invaders, the destruction of houses at some sites in the Neolithic period was part of ______.
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A ritual killing of the house
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Figures such as the Woman of Willendorf may have functioned to communicate _____ among differeing groups of Paleolithic peoples.
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Shared values and friendliness
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Archaeologists now believe that the confusing combination of architecture, unusual art, multiple burials, and an undomesticated economy at Lepinski Vir indicates ______.
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A temporary habitation used for special rights and activites
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Which historic site challenges previous interpretations that the Neolithic world view focused on rep. of the female body, human fertility, and cults of the mother goddess?
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Catalhoyuk
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Relative to art, one of man's most important new cognitive developments was the ability to _____.
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Think symbolically
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The Woman from Brassempouy captures the essence of a head also called the ______.
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Memory Image
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Greeks called ______ the "land between the rivers"
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Mesopotamia
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Around 2400 b.c.e. Sumerians invented the first system of writing called _______.
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Cuneiform
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Ziggurats, like the Anu Ziggurat at Uruk, functioned symbolically as _______.
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Bridged between the earth and the heavens
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The most impressive surviving archaeological remains of the Sumerians is the _______.
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Ziggurat
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At the top of the Anu Ziggurat White Temple was _______.
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A simple rectangle with an off center doorway
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What original elements have been lost from the Warka Head? (3)
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Painted marble body, gold wig, inlaid emerald eyes
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The uppermost scene of the carved vessel from Uruk may represent _______ between the goddess and her consort.
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Reenactment of a ritual marriage
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Sumerian votive figures like the Twelve Votive Figures from the square temple at Eshunna were dedicated to the ____.
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Gods
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The great Lyre with Bull's Head from a royal tomb at Ur rested over _______.
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the body of the woman who had presumably played it during the funeral ceremony
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The artifact shown is _______.
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The front panel from the sound box of the Great Lyre
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The incised design on a Cylinder Seal found in the tomb of Queen Paubi demonstrates the Sumerian use of _______.
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Narrative images
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The alabaster disk shown depicts ________, daughter of Sargon I and high priestesses of the moon god Nanna at Ur.
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Enheduanna
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The Head of a Ruler was _____. (3)
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Intentionally mutilated, made with lost-wax casting technique, once identified as Sargon himself
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In the Stele of Naram Sim what artistic device is used to signal Naram Sin's importance and reinforce his divine right to rule?
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Hierarchical scale
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The ziggurat shown above was dedicated to ______.
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Nanna
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The votive figure shown depicts _______, the ruler of Lagash.
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Gudea
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The Stele of Hammurabi is _____.
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A written legal code
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In the Bas Relief of Enemies Crossing the Euphrates to Escape Assyrian Archers, the ______ convey depth.
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Overlapping and swimming
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The Guardian Figures at the Gate of Dur Sharrukin are known as ______ and combined features from a lan, lion, and eagle as a god.
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Lamassus
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The ceremonial entrance to the city of Babylon was the _______ Gate.
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Ishtar
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________ commemorates the unification of Egypt and marks the beginning of the countries growth as a powerful nation-state.
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Narmer Palette
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A flat topped one story building known as _______, which was the most common tomb structure during the early dynastic Egypt.
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Mastaba
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For his tomb complex at ______, King Djoser commissioned the earliest known monumental architecture in Egypt.
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Saqqara
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_______ were built by 3 successive fourth dynasty king's.
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Pyramids at Giza
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The Great Sphynx at Giza is thought to be a portrait of _______.
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King Khafre
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Sculpture is a statue of King ______.
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Khefre
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In the statue Menkaure and Queen, the king is depicted in accordance with Egyptian ideals as _______.
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An athletic, youthful figure, nude to the waist, and wearing the royal kilt and head-cloth
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Old Kingdom sculptors also produced statues of less prominent people, rendered in more relaxed fashion, like ______.
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The seated scribe
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The Head of Sensuret III is dated to the_______.
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Middle Kingdom
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In the Stele of Sculptor Userwer, Userwer is depicted _________. with his wife sitting at a table piled with food offerings.
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With his wife sitting at a table piled with food offerings
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here were ordinary people allowed to go in the Great Temple of Amun?
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Forecourt of the Hypostyle Hall
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The Great Hall of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak might have been used for _______.
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Royal coronation ceremonies
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Sculptures portraying Hatshepsut as a ________ reflect the power of trdition and artistic convention in Egypt.
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Male king
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Like most New Kingdom temples, the Temple of Hatshepsut is built along an _______.
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Axial plane
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Akhenatan was the first Egyptian Pharaoh to ______.
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Adopt monotheism
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The ________ period saw dramatic changes in the conventions used in Egyptian royal art.
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Amarna
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Amenhotep IV changed his name to _______ to honor the life-giving sun deity Aten.
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Akhenatan
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The ________ was discovered in 1912 in the studio of the sculptor Thutmose.
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Head of Nefertiti
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King Tut's mummified bosy was enclosed in 3 nested coffins with the innermost made of _______.
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Gold
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The Pharaoh ______ built temples out of the natural rock at Abu Simbel.
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Ramses II
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Cycladic sculptors created marble statues of nude women that all ______.
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Conform to the same design system
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The Cycladic marble head shown above has vertical red lines under the eyes which might be connected with rituals of ______.
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Mourning
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Famed for its thinned walls and use of colors, the ceramic work called _____ was named after the cave on Mount Ida where it was first discovered.
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Kamares Ware
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The palace complex at Knossos in Crete was first erected about 1900 b.c.e. and then rebuilt in ca 1700 b.c.e. after ______.
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A terrible earthquake
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The rebuilt Knossos complex was organized around _______.
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A large central courtyard
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Architectural features of the Palace at Knossos complex were _____. (3)
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Multi-storied buildings, sophisticated plumbing system, and open stairwells
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The term "labyrinth" applied to the "palace" at Knossos originally referred to the building's ______.
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Double-Ax decorative motifs
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Scholars believe the Bull Leaping mural from the Palace at Knossos represents _______.
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A fertility or an adulthood ritual
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The statuette of a male figure was ______.
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A multi-media work
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The Bull's Head Rhyton would have been used ______.
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To pour ritual libations
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Depictions of sea life decorating works like the Octopus Flask characterize the ______ in Minoan Pottery.
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Marine style
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The Pendant of Gold Bees exemplifies early sophistication of ______ and _______.
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Filigree / Granulation
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The metalworking skills used to make the Vapheio Cup suggests the influence of ______ art on mainland Greece.
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Minoan
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The Ship Procession from the wall painting found at Akrotira, Thera depicts ______.
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A nautical festival
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The wall painting Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers demonstrates Aegean cultural practices related to ______.
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A woman's entry into adolescence
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Minoan cities were generally unfortified; on the other hand, the Mycenaeans constructed strongholds of megaliths called ______ to protect their palaces.
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Citadels
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The picture above depicts the plan of the _____ of the Pylos palace.
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Megaron
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The large above ground burial places of Mycenae are called Tholos tombs, or _______.
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Beehive tombs
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A _______ is a large bowl for mixing water and wine.
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Krater
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ARTS 149: EXAM 1