Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe and the Near East in the Stone Age
Multiple Choice Select the response that best answers the question or completes the
statement.
1.
Where did humankind seem to originate?
a. Asia
c. South America
b. Africa
d. North America
2.
The Apollo 11 Cave is located in ___________.
a. Namibia
c. Lascaux
b. Willendorf
d. Altamira
3.
The Human with feline head discovered in Hohlenstein-Satdel, Germany is
carved from _____________ ________________.
a. Lion tooth
c. Mammoth ivory
b. Antelope horn
d. Walrus ivory
4.
The Venus of Willendorf is thought to be a _____________ ________.
a. goddess figure
c. woman’s portrait
b. good luck charm
d. fertility figure
5.
Altamira Cave is located in __________.
a. Spain
c. France
b. Germany
d. Yugolsavia
6.
Some scholars think the negative handprints are __________.
a. graffiti
c. signatures
b. mistakes
d. illusions
7.
The Lascaux caves are located in __________.
a. France
c. Spain
b. Germany
d. Bavaria
8.
The world’s earliest datable paintings can be found in _____________.
a. Lascaux
c. Altamira
b. Pech-Merle
d. Chauvet
9.
The 1880 Lisbon Congress on Prehistoric Archaeology dismissed as forgeries the
cave paintings of ____________.
a. Lascaux
c. Chauvet
b. Altamira
d. Pech-Merle
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10.
The __________ ____________ is one of the earliest relief sculptures known.
a. Laussel Woman
c. Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)
b. Reclining woman
d. Human with feline head
11.
What was the environmental condition of Northern Europe around 9000 B.C.?
a. constant cycle of fire and ice
c. active volcanoes
b. melting ice
d. receding swamplands
12.
The transitional period known as the _________ occurred when Europe became
climatically, geographically and biologically much as it is today.
a. Paleolithic era
c. Neolithic era
b. First Ice Age
d. Mesolithic era
13.
Intensified food gathering and the taming of the dog occurred during the
________ period.
a. Paleolithic
c. Mesolithic
b. Neolithic
d. Late Bronze Age
14.
Agriculture and stock raising became humankind’s chief source of food during
the ____________ period.
a. Paleolithic
c. Mesolithic
b. Neolithic
d. Late Bronze Age
15.
Which of the following marked the beginning of monumental sculpture.
a. Ain Ghazal
c. Sumer
b. Jerusalem
d. Jericho
16.
A peculiar feature of Çatal Höyük was its __________.
a. lack of streets
c. moat
b. city walls
d. plaza
17.
Hacilar and Çatal Höyük are located on the ___________ __________.
a. Iranian Plateau
c. Anatolian Plateau
b. Tigris Euphrates River Delta
d. Nile River Delta
18.
Bucrania are ____________ __________.
a. Bovine skulls
c. Feline skulls
b. Mammoth skulls
d. Human skulls
19.
Most archaeologists consider Stonehenge to be an accurate _______ _______.
a. palace system
c. astronomical observatory
b. stock exchange
d. royal cemetery
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20.
Huge stones arranged in a circle are known as a __________.
a. trilithon
c. terracotta
b. henge
d. megalith
Slide Questions
A.
Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf) (Figure 1-5)
21.
What is the significance of this work?
22.
What is the medium?
B.
Waterworn Pebble (Figure 1-2)
23.
Why is this significant?
24.
Where was this found?
C
Human with Feline Head (Figure 1-4)
25.
How is this work significant?
26.
What is the medium?
27.
What is the size?
28.
How is this work important?
D.
Spotted Horses and Negative Hands (Figure 1-10)
29.
Why is this work significant?
30.
How is the “negative handprint” achieved?
31.
Where is this located?
E.
Restored View, Çatal Höyük (Figure 1-16)
32.
How is this significant?
33.
What was the construction material?
34.
What urban design does Çatal Höyük present?
35.
Why are the shrines significant?
Short Answer
36.
What is the significance of “representing” human and animal forms in the
Paleolithic period?
37.
Briefly discuss the importance of Human with feline head.
38.
Define ground line.
39.
What is the suggested intent or purpose of the Nude woman (Venus of
Willendorf)?
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40.
Briefly describe the distinction between food gathering and food production
during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods.
41.
What is strikingly different in the Deer hunt wall painting compared to other wall
paintings like the Hall of Bulls?
42.
What is the change in technique of painting from the Paleolithic to Neolithic
periods?
43.
Define lintel.
44.
Briefly describe the layout of Çatal Höyük.
45.
Summarize the differences between the shrines and houses of Çatal Höyük.
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ANSWERS
Multiple Choice
1.
B page 15
2.
A page 16
3.
C page 17
4.
D pages 17-18
5.
A page 19
6.
C page 22
7.
A page 22
8.
D page 22
9.
B pages 19-20
10.
A page 18
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
B page 24
D page 24
C page 24
B page 24
A page 25
A page 25
C page 25
A page 26
C page 28
B page 28
Slide Questions
A.
21.
The emphasis is on the female and fertility, this figure is possibly a
fertility figure. Pages 17-18
22.
Limestone. Page 17
B.
23.
24.
It is perhaps that singular step toward representation. Pages 15-16
Makapansgat, South Africa. Page 15
C.
25.
It represents a human figure, either male or female and a directed effort at
figural representation. Page 17
Mammoth Ivory. Page 17
Almost one (1) foot or twelve (12) inches. Page 17
It is a creative work in that it does not represent the real world. It is also
quite tall for a statuette of that time, and took a significant amount of time
to create. Page 17
26.
27.
28.
D.
29.
30.
31.
E.
32.
33.
34.
That this work had meaning for the Paleolithic peoples cannot be doubted.
The markings and the figural representation on the walls indicate purpose,
and the handprints possibly could mean a signature of sorts. Pages 20-22
The painter placed his hand on the surface and then blew, brushed, or spat
pigment on his hand creating an outline and thus the “signature”. Pages
20-22
Pech-Merle, Lot, France. Page 20
It indicates a thoughtful process in creating and designing an urban
environment, it presents careful planning, guarding and protecting the
city, it is a consequence of civilization. Page 25
Mud brick. Page 26
Thus far the excavated rooms indicate a domestic living arrangement,
designed for working, cooking, eating, and sleeping. Page 26
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35.
They indicate the thoughtful process of intellectualizing a “greater being.”
The interior decorative programs illustrate these rooms were special to the
people. Page 26
Short Answer
36.
Representing a form (animal or human) requires the presenting again in a
different and substitute form of something observed. Pages 15-16
37.
The artist had to manufacture an ivory figure about one foot tall, a difficult
process, the tusk had to removed from the dead animal and cut to size then rubbed
into its approximate final shape by sandstone and finally carved and incised into
its present shape which would have required at least several days of intense effort.
Page 17
38.
A painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand in paintings and
reliefs. Page 20
39.
Female fertility and womanhood. Page 17
40.
Mesolithic was the last phase of intensified food gathering and the Neolithic saw
the people change from hunters to herders and farmers with cultivated fields and
domesticated stock animals as their primary food source. Page 24
41.
The appearance of the human figure, singly, and also in coherent groups with a
wide variety of poses, subjects and settings. Page 26
42.
The paint is applied with a brush to a white background of plaster; the wall
surface is carefully prepared as opposed to the direct application of pigment to the
rock face. Page 26
43.
Beam used to span an opening. Page 28
44.
Houses adjoined one another and had no doors, openings just below the roofs
allowed access to the interiors; these openings also served as chimneys to
ventilate the hearth of the combination living room/kitchen that formed the
house’s core. Pages 25-26
45.
The shrines had greater richness of interior decorations (wall paintings, plaster
reliefs, animal heads and bucrania). Page 26
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