AP Art History Chapter 1 Test Part 1
What is bitumen?
A tarlike substance
In the Neolithic period, agriculture and raising stock became humankind's major food sources. Which area transitioned to these activities first?
Anatolia and Mesopotamia
---- is one of the primary characteristics of Neolithic society.
Domestication of animals and plants
---- is the location of the most spectacular of the most spectacular cave paintings that have been discovered.
France
The human with feline (lion?) head sculpture was found in ----
Germany
The remains of what appear to be the oldest stone temples have been discovered in ----.
Göbekli Tepe
What is a megalith?
It is a massive rock-cut stone.
Çatal Höyük has a most remarkable mural, a landscape. Which statement best defines the term landscape?
It is a picture of a natural setting in its own right without any narrative content.
What is a ground line?
It is the baseline in which figures appear to stand.
---- is the simplest and oldest method of spanning a passageway.
Post and lintel
What necessitated the inhabitants of Neolithic Jericho to construct fortification walls?
Protection from marauding nomads
----- was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art.
The profile view
The painting rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison is unique in Paleolithic art regarding the presence of ----.
a male figure
A henge, or ----, was a type of megalithic monument found almost exclusively in Britain.
an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle
The convention of representing animals' horns in twisted perspective in cave paintings or allowing the viewer to see the head in profile and the horns from the front is termed ----.
descriptive
Figures sculpted in the round can be defined as ----.
freestanding
The emphasis on the anatomy of the nude woman figurine (Venus of Willendorf) suggests early man's interest in ----.
health and fertility
The regular appearance of ---- distinguishes paintings produced in the Neolithic period from those in the Paleolithic period.
human figures
One of the suggested purposes for Paleolithic cave paintings is thought to have been ----.
insurance for the survival of the herd
Whatever their purpose, one of the most outstanding differences between Neolithic figures, such as the human figure from Ain Ghazal and Paleolithic statues, is ----.
its large scale and sophisticated technique
The use of ---- along with its large scale suggests the sculpture human with feline (lion?) head was important to its creator.
mammoth ivory
Monuments from the Neolithic period in western Europe, such as Stonehenge, are characterized by ----.
megalithic architecture
One of the most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, the Hall of the Bulls, was discovered in ----.
the Lascaux caves
The figures in the deer hunt wall painting from Çatal Höyük are rendered in ---- , which describes what a human body is, as opposed to its appearance from a specific viewpoint.
the composite view