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