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All of these except __________ are depicted at Lascaux.
apes
Bronze is a mixture of copper and __________.
tin
__________ has the oldest pieces of art of these ancient sites.
Blombos Cave
The technique of __________ is closely allied to that of ceramics
metallurgy
What aspect of many of the buildings at Çatalhöyük connected them to the community’s sense of past, present, and future?
bodies buried under the floors
There is an elaborate passage grave at __________.
Newgrange
__________ is a technique for weaving branches into a basket-like pattern.
Wattle and daub
A few special burials found in present-day __________ contained gold and copper artifacts.
Bulgaria
Radiometric dating is a form of __________ dating.
absolute
A __________ is a circle of stones or posts.
henge
__________ is a term used to refer to pottery fragments.
Potsherds
The cave paintings from Altamira are from the __________ Paleolithic Period
Upper
The “pot revolution” marked a shift from a reliance on containers made of __________ to containers made of made of clay.
textile, skin, and wood
Prehistoric sculptures and paintings seemingly did all of the following except __________
serve as art for its own sake
When a house at sites such as Lepenski Vir was no longer to be lived in, it would be__________.
burned down
Representational images begin to appear in the archaeological record about __________.
38,000 years ago
__________ are the most common artifacts found in excavation of prehistoric settlements.
Fragments of low-fired ceramics
The name __________ Period comes from Greek, meaning “old stone.”
Paleolithic
Jomon pottery is from present-day __________.
Japan
The potter’s wheel first appeared in _________.
Egypt
Metals were first used for __________.
ornamentation
An unusual technique probably used by cave painters was __________.
spray painting with the mouth
The oldest known site of prehistoric cave painting is __________.
Chauvet
It is likely that the Woman from Willendorf had a function associated with the idea of __________.
fertility
__________ aims to determine a precise span of calendar years in which an artifact was created.
Absolute dating
The only entrance to the House in Çatalhöyük was through the __________.
roof
All of these except __________ are examples of “large stone” or megalithic architecture.
Lepenski Vir House
The __________ was a spearthrower used by prehistoric hunters.
atlatl
The layer of ash at Çatalhöyük seems to have resulted from a __________.
house-burning practice
Woman from __________ is only 1-1/4-inch tall.
Brassempouy
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ArtTest1Chap1
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2011-02-02T02:52:17Z
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