<p> PREHISTORIC ART IN EUROPE Practice quiz Art History I VMA 112</p><p>MULTIPLE CHOICE/FILL-IN-THE-BLANK (10 out of 20)</p><p>1. Chauvet Cave is located in ______. A. Newgrange, Ireland. B. Altamira, Spain. C. southern France. D. Dordogne, France. Page reference: 1</p><p>2. The word Neolithic means ______. A. new stone. B. new age. C. hard rock. D. new history. Page reference: 2</p><p>3. Archaeologists link the emergence of image making to the arrival of ______. A. Homo sapiens. B. Paleo sapiens. C. Homo sapiens sapiens. D. Neo sapiens. Page reference: 2</p><p>4. Prehistoric man often coated their floors with powdered ______. A. ash. B. bones. C. clay. D. ocher. Page reference: 4</p><p>5. The Lion-Human sculpture from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany is made of ______. A. cast clay. B. molded bronze. C. mammoth ivory. D. porcelain clay. Page reference: 4</p><p>6. The earliest known Prehistoric cave painting site was discovered in 1994 and is called ______. A. Altamira. B. Chauvet. C. Pech-Merle. D. Lascaux. Page reference: 7</p><p>1 7. The ______pose indicates speed in running in Prehistoric art. A. running leap B. bounding prance C. flying gallop D. large jumping Page reference: 13</p><p>8. One of the best preserved Neolithic settlements is located at ______in the Orkney Islands off of the Scottish coast. A. Skara Brae B. Stöen Huf C. Rein Château D. Clair Reefe Page reference: 13</p><p>9. The simplest form of construction used to span space is ______-and-______. A. post; lintel. B. post; beam. C. brace; cannon. D. lintel; strut. Page reference: 14</p><p>10. The word megalithic means ______. A. middle stone. B. new rock. C. old stone. D. large stone. Page reference: 15</p><p>11. About 3260 years ago, if a person stood in the center of Stonehenge, on the morning of the summer solstice, they would see the sun rise over the ______. A. main altar B. heel stone C. Aubrey hole D. trilithon lintel Page reference: 17</p><p>12. Stonehenge was built in ______-and-______construction. A. post; lintel B. corbel; cantilever C. lintel; beam D. post; corbel Page reference: 17</p><p>13. The lintels of Stonehenge are secured by ______-and-______joints. A. post; lintel B. anchor; beam C. mortise; tenon D. link; stem Page reference: 19</p><p>2 14. Bronze is an alloy of ______and ______. A. pewter; tin B. gold; silver C. tin; copper D. silver; copper Page reference: 20</p><p>15. The term ______generally means that the people in question left no written records, but other people wrote about them. A. proto-historic B. paleo-scripto C. non-scribe D. proto-Celtic Page reference: 22</p><p>16. Work of the proto-historic ______culture is exemplified in pieces where pattern is an integral part of the object and not an applied decoration. A. Creations B. Minoans C. Beaker D. Celtic Page reference: 22</p><p>17. The village at Skara Brae uses ______in its construction where rows of stones are laid with the end of each row projecting past the one before. A. projection B. cantilevering C. corbeling D. hiking Page reference: 14</p><p>18. The word Paleolithic means ______. Page reference: 2</p><p>19. Art Historians use the term BCE to mean ______. Page reference: 2</p><p>20. The Sculpted Bison at Le Tuc ďAudoubert, France are created in ______relief. Page reference: 11</p><p>Short Answer (You will be asked to answer one of these questions)</p><p>Questions to prepare for the Prehistory quiz :</p><p>1. Paleolithic humans were nomadic, and Neolithic humans began to live in villages. How did this affect their art work respectively?</p><p>2. How did cave paintings differ from each other throughout the Paleolithic period?</p><p>3. Why might Prehistoric humans have painted on cave walls?</p><p>3 4. How did Paleolithic culture differ from Neolithic culture?</p><p>5. What were the hypothesized uses for some of the megalithic monuments in Europe?</p><p>6. What did the appearance of metals mean to early humans?</p><p>7. What types of art did early humans create out of clay?</p><p>Slide list for quiz (10 slide identifications)</p><p>Provide: 1. Title 2. Period 3. Material 4. Medium 5. Significance or importance</p><p>Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon- Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche Gorge, France, c. 30,000-28,000 BCE, Paint on limestone (fig. 1-1)</p><p>Lion-Human, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, c. 30,000-26,000 BCE, Mammoth ivory; height 11 ⅝” (29.6 cm), Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany (fig. 1-3)</p><p>Woman from Willendorf, Austria, c. 24,000 BCE, Limestone; height 4 ⅜” (11 cm), Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (fig. 1-4)</p><p>Woman from Ostrava Petrkovice, Czech Republic, c. 23,000 BCE, Hematite; height 1 ¾” (4.6 cm), Archaeological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic (fig. 1-5)</p><p>Woman from Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France, Probably c. 30,000 BCE, Ivory; height 1 ¼” (3.6 cm), Musée de Antiquités Nationales, St- Germain-en-Laye, France (fig. 1-6)</p><p>Spotted Horses and Human Hands, Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France, Horses 25,000-24,000 BCE; Hands c. 15,000 BCE, Paint on limestone; individual horses are over 5’ (1.5 cm) in length (fig. 1-7)</p><p>Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France, c. 15,000 BCE, Paint on limestone; length of the largest auroch 18’ (5.50 m) (fig. 1-8)</p><p>Bison, Altamira, Spain, c. 12,500 BCE, Paint on limestone; length approx. 8’ 3” (2.5 m) (fig. 1-10) </p><p>House Interior, Skara Brae (fig. 1-15)</p><p>Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, c. 2750-1500 BCE (fig. 1-17)</p><p>Figures of a Woman and a Man, Cernavoda, Romania, c. 3500 BCE, Ceramic; height 4 ½” (11.5 cm), National Historical Museum, Bucharest (fig. 1-18)</p><p>4 Horse and Sun Chariot, Trundholm, Denmark, c. 1800-1600 BCE, Bronze; length 23 ¼” (59.2 cm), National Museum, Copenhagen (fig. 1-20)</p><p>5</p>