ARTH103 Art of the Americas OL Quiz

A lot of people lived in Chaco Canyon.

False

Ballgame: The ballgame was only played by a small number of people and few courts have been uncovered.

False

Ballgame: Yokes were used to hold down sacrificial victims.

False

Teotihuacan was a Maya site.

False

The reconstruction at Teotihuacan is extremely accurate.

False

According to the lecture, which culture built the Great Serpent Mound?

Fort Ancient culture

This is a feature not shared by Mesoamerica:

They were united under the Olmec

The Olmecs were contemporaries of the New Kingdom in Egypt, although the two cultures never interacted.

True

The people of Cahokia built __________ similar to structures built on the east coast at the time of contact.

a woodhenge

What do we often call the arts of the ancient Americas?

Precolumbian art

Cahokia is located to the east of modern day

St. Louis

The Adena pipe may depict

all of these (dwarf, a shaman, someone with a genetic disorder or poor nutrition)

Anasazi/ Ancient Pueblo are known for their

black-on-white pottery

Lintel 24 at Yaxchilan, depicting Lady Xoc, depicts the Maya elite practice of

bloodletting

Palenque (Engineering an Empire): What material covered Lord Pakal's sarcophagus?

cinnabar

The semi-subterranean ceremonial structure of the ancient Pueblo/Anasazi/ people of Chaco Canyon were called:

kivas

Similar to the Menhir alignments studied earlier in this course, Nazca lines may have been used for

processional worship

Why is it considered acceptable to exclude these cultures from the Survey of Western art?

these cultures were isolated from the Western world