Apollo 11 Stones
Great Hall of the Bulls
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
Running Horned Woman
Bushel/Beaker with Ibex Motifs
Anthropomorphic Stele
Jade Cong
Stonehenge
Ambum Stone
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Terracotta Fragments (Lapita Peoples)
Apollo 11 Stones
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric African (Namibia)
Paleolithic
Great Hall of the Bulls
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric European
Paleolithic
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine,
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric American (Mexico)
Paleolithic
Running Horned Woman
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric African (Algerian)
Paleolithic
Beaker/Bushel with Ibex Motifs
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric Middle Eastern (Iran)
Paleolithic
Anthropomorphic Stele
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric Middle Eastern
Neolithic
Jade Cong
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric Chinese
Neolithic
Stonehenge
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric European
Neolithic
Ambum Stone
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric Oceania
Formative
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric American (Mexico)
Formative
Terracotta Fragments
Artist/Culture
Prehistoric Oceania (Lapita)
Iron Age
Apollo 11 Stones
Date
25,500 BCE - 25,300 BCE
Great Hall of the Bulls
Date
15,000 BCE - 13,000 BCE
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
Date
14,000 BCE - 7,000 BCE
Running Horned Woman
Date
6,000 BCE - 4,000 BCE
Beaker/Bushel with Ibex Motifs
Date
4,200 BCE - 3,500 BCE
Anthropomorphic Stele
Date
4,000 BCE
Jade Cong
Date
3,300 BCE - 2,200 BCE
Stonehenge
Date
2,500 BCE - 1,600 BCE
Ambum Stone
Date
1,500 BCE
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Date
1,200 BCE - 900 BCE
Terracotta Fragments
Date
1000 BCE
Apollo 11 Stones
Medium
Charcoal on Stone
Great Hall of the Bulls
Medium
Rock Painting
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
Medium
Bone
Running Horned Woman
Medium
Pigment on Rock
Beaker with Ibex Motifs
Medium
Painted terracotta
Anthropomorphic Stele
Medium
Sandstone
Jade Cong
Medium
Carved Jade
Ambum Stone
Medium
Greywacke
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Medium
Ceramic
Terracotta Fragment
Medium
Incised terracotta
Apollo 11 Stones
Location
Namibia
Great Hall of the Bulls
Location
Lascaux, France
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
Location
Tequixquiac, Central Mexico
Running Horned Woman
Location
Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria
Beaker with Ibex Motifs
Location
Susa, Iran
Anthropomorphic Stele
Location
Arabian Peninsula
Jade Cong
Location
Liangzhu, China
Stonehenge
Location
Wiltshire, UK
Ambum Stone
Location
Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Location
Tlatilco, Central Mexico
Terracotta Fragment
Location
Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
Theme of this Unit
"Cave Conjecture"
- addresses the site of much Paleolithic art as well as the lack of documentation surrounding this period's artwork
- much of this chapter is comprised of conjecture
Anthropomorphic
having characteristics of the human form, although the form itself is not human
Bushel
cylindrical earthenware pot
Cong
a tubular object with a circular hole cut into it in the middle like a cross section
Figurative
clearly derived from real objects or sources
Ground/Horizon line
horizontal line at eye level that determines ground space that figures are rooted upon
Henge
A Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan of stone; commonly used for rituals and marking astronomical events
Incise
to cut into a surface with a sharp instrument
Megalith/Monolith
a large, single block or piece of stone used in large, stone structures
Mortise and Tenon
an architectural joint made from two components (mortise hole and tenon tongue); tenon is inserted into the mortise and is cut to fit the hole exactly; tenon may be glued or otherwise adhered in place
Naturalism
attempting to portray objects from everyday life as they are
Positive
area of artworks where there is mass and subject
Negative
area of artwork that is void of mass
Post and Lintel
architecture in which two or more vertical elements (posts) support and are capped by a horizontal element (lintel)
Profile
a view of an object or person from the side
Sculpture-in-the-Round (free-standing sculpture)
sculpture that can be seen from all sides and is not affixed
Stele
upright stone slab, often to mark a grave or site
Stylized
a manner of depicting the visible world that privileges a certain look over realism and faithfulness to how things truly appear in nature
Superimposed Art
when one painting is painted over another (not necessarily at the same time)
Terra-cotta
a hard, ceramic clay used for building or for pottery
Twisted Perspective/Composite View
A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally