AP Art History Summer Assignment: due first day of class, Fall 2019 Research content information for Unit 1: Global Prehistory artworks from the 250 Canon set of images. Complete the following pages by providing a drawing of each artwork and listing the form, function, content and context for each image. Be prepared for a slide identification quiz of the 16 artworks on the first day of class. CONTENT AREA 1: Global Prehistory 30,000-500 BCE. Humankind believed to have originated from Africa 1. Waterworn pebble resembling a human face. Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 3,000,000 BCE. Reddish-brown jasperite, 2 3/8” wide. Australopithecus (believed to be a predecessor of modern humans who lived 3 mil yrs ago) PALEOLITHIC PERIOD (Greek – paleo = old; lithos = stone) Old Stone Age – Mankind began to go beyond just the recognition of human and animal forms and started the representation of them 2. *Apollo 11 stones. Namibia. c. 25,500–25,300 BCE. Charcoal on stone. 4 ½” x 5”. (1) 3. Venus of Willendorf. Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE. Limestone, 4 ¼” high. 4. Woman holding a bison horn. Laussel, France, ca. 25,000-20,000 BCE. Painted limestone, 1’6” high. Relief Sculpture 5. *Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15,000-13,000 BCE. Rock painting. 6. *Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14,000–7000 BCE. Bone. NEOLITHIC PERIOD New Stone Age – Marked by stride toward controlling their environment, settling in fixed houses, domesticating plants and animals 7. Human Skull with restored features. Jericho, ca. 7200-6700 BCE. 8. *Running horned woman. Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6000–4000 BCE. Pigment on rock. 9. *Bushel with ibex motifs. Susa, Iran. 4200–3500 BCE. Painted terra cotta, approx. height 11 2/5”, diameter 6 2/5”. 10. Volcanic eruption. Catal Huyuk, Turkey, ca. 6150 BCE. Detail of watercolor copy of wall painting from level VII. 11. *Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium BCE. Sandstone, approx. height 36” x width 8”. 12. *Jade cong. Liangzhu, China. 3300–2200 BCE. Carved jade, approx. 1 1/3” high x 5” wide. 13. *Stonehenge. Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, ca. 2550-1600 BCE. Sandstone, tallest lintel 24’, average 13’6” weighing 26 tons, diameter of all lintels 106’. Circle is 97’ in diameter and 24’ high. Megaliths = large stones (some of these weigh up to 50 tons) Henge = arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle Post-and-lintel system = two upright stones (posts) support a horizontal beam (lintel) – see this in many architectural structures throughout history 14. *The Ambum Stone. Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. c. 1500 BCE. Greywacke, approx. height 7 9/10” x width 3” x depth 5 ½”. 15. *Tlatilco female figurine. Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco. 1200–900 BCE. Ceramic with traces of pigment, 3 ¾” x 1 7/8” x 13/16”. 16. *Terra cotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands. 1000 BCE. Terra .