Quiz 1 Practice

When was the ealiest discovered statue in Europe

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What is a ground line?

• It is the baseline on which figures appear to stand

• It is a measured line on the wall surface

• It is the point where the wall surfaces meets the floor

• It is an engraved line on the wall surface

The following statement describes this cave EXCEPT...

• The animals are depicted in the profile or composite form

• The images are painted with pigments such as ocher and charcole

• Humans lived in these caves and viewed these images on a daily basis

• There is no overall unified composition, the individual images were added over time, sometimes many years apart

What is the approximate date of the paintings

• 16,000-14,000 BCE

• 160,000-140,000 BCE

• 1,600-1,400 BCE

• 600-400 CE

What is the almost-exclusive subject of Paleolithic cave paintings?

• Women

• Hunters

• Animals

• Western Europe

Cave painters at Altamira (image above) created sculptural effects by ___

• adding full-round sculpture

• carving relief images on the wall

• using the shape of the cave wall

• blowing paint through a tube

Name the findspot (location of discovery) of this sculpture.

• Ur

• Paleolithic

• Catal Hoyuk

• Willendorf

This Paleolithic statuette was created out of which material?

• Oolithic limestone

• Clay

• Ocher

• Mammoth ivory

Paleolithic figurines, such as the Women from Willendorf, that can be carried or held in the hand are example of ______

• hunting magic

• sculpture in the round

• composite form

• relief

This painting at Lascaux is exceptional as one of the earliest painted depictions of what figure?

• A wooly rhinoceros

• A prehistoric bull called Auroch

• A human figure

• A bird