Chapter 1 Key Vocabulary
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- prehistory
- refers to artwork done before written history. No archaeologist can exactally say when a piece of art was done.
- Paleolithic
- The Stone Age - several millennia following 30,000 BCE. the first types of art, incldiing cave paintings, were made
- Neolithic
- (New Stone Age) paintings in this era were done in strict profile with few detailed parts made
- archaeology
- the sceintific study of material remains
- anthropology
- the study of man in relation to distribution, origin, classification, and relationship of race, physical character, environmental and social relations and culture
- strict profile
- the artist drew one side of an animal or human. They didn't show a frontal view or a view inbetween profile and frontal.
- free standing
- a sculpture that stands alone. It is not carved into another material.
- relief
- carved into a wall, or large piece of material
- BCE
- before the common era
- CE
- common era
- Silhouette
- an outline, shadow
- radiocarbon dating
- technology which tests the carbon in a piece of work to determine how long ago it was created
- landscape
- a scenergy of outside natural growth. an arrangement of a painting
- megalith
- "great stone" large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures
- monolith
- a column shaft that is all in one piece. a large, single block or piece of stone used in megalithic structures
- henge (cromlech)
- a circle of monoliths
- sarsen
- any numerous, large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England. also called druid stone, grayweather
- lintels
- a beam used to span openings.