QUIZ#2

Prehistoric art has four main periods. Which of the following is not included?

• Stone Age

• Age of Renaissance

• Bronze Age

• Age of Iron

Prehistoric Art is a symbolic system that is an integral part of the culture that creates it. Many archaeologist have identified stone age art, which stone art is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading.

• Pictographs

• Petroglyphs

• Megalithic Arts

• Ancient Sculpture

What type of Stone Age Art describes an image, sign or symbol which is created in order to express some idea or information?

• Pictographs

• Petroglyphs

• Megalithic Arts

• Ancient Sculpture

A kind of stone age art that uses large stone to construct a structure or monument, such as a tomb or a stone circle.

• Ancient Sculpture

• Petroglyphs

• Pictographs

• Megalithic Arts

The oldest European cave art is found in Spain in 1903 by Hermilio Alcalde del Rio, a Spanish Archaelogist. Hand stencils, claviforms (club shapes) and disks made by blowing paint onto the wall found that date back 40,800 years.

• Cave of Niaux

• Pech Merle

• El Castillo Cave

• Chauvet Cave

The tools made of tone were the instruments by which early man developed and progressed. The first stone tools which are now believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation is known as

• Eoliths

• Pebble

• Chopper

• Paleos

Paleoanthropologist are

• scientist who focuses on living organisms, including plants and animals.

• people who study the origins and predecessors of the present human species

• people's who study social lives, activities, behaviors, interactions, processes, and organizations within the context of larger social, political, and economic forces

• people who study all aspects of society which includes past events and achievements to human behavior and relationships among groups.

Paleoanthropologist confirmed that the Paleolithic Man produced four types of tools in creating an art. Which of the following is the first cutting device and considered as the oldest type of tool made by humans.

• Pebble Tools

• Bifacial Tools

• Flake Tools

• Blade Tools

These are hand tools used during Stone Age. They are usually formed by crushing off a small or large fragment then used as the tool. It is very sharp but quickly became blunt during use and had to be sharpened again.

• Pebble Tools

• Bifacial Tools

• Flake Tools

• Blade Tools

It is a hand ax prehistoric stone tool flake with two faces or sides. These tools may be oval, triangular, or almond-shaped in form and characterized by axial symmetry.

• Pebble Tools

• Bifacial Tools

• Flake Tools

• Blade Tools