Course Competency: "Identifying major works of art."
Instructions; Read the pages included on the Stone Age and pgs.108-112 in your text.
1) What are the three periods that make up the Prehistoric Era?
2) The Lascaux Cave; when it was discovered? who discovered it? Where is it? How old are the paintings?
3) Cave Art: what types of images were created? Why? How many caves were actually found?
4) What was the purpose of cave paintings to early cave dwellers? To us?
5) What clues tell us which drawings are newer than others?
6) Why did early cave people hunt animals?
7) What were the primary needs or concerns of people of the Stone Age?
8) Which countries primarily are cave paintings found in?
9) How is it that these paintings survived so many centuries till today?
10) How old are the Nassarius snail shells found in Morocco?
11) Why are the shells significant in art history?
12) What is the Mesolithic Era also referred to as?
13) What was the biggest change in art from the Paleolithic Era to the Mesolithic Era?
14) How were people portrayed in paintings in Mesolithic art?
15) What inventions were made during this era?
16) What is Stonehenge and what was its purpose?