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