Timeline
The age before written records.
Prehistory
In the shape or form of a human, or attributing human characteristics to something not human
Anthropomorphic
Climate Change
A theory regarding superimposed images, such as in Great Hall of the Bulls.
Funerary
Another name for Old Stone Age
Small portable sculpted objects
mobiliary
Stratigraphy, Radiocarbon Dating, Contextual Evidence
Different methods to determine the age of prehistoric art
Nose Holes
The function of the Ambum Stone
Mortar and Pestle
The amount of building phases to Stonehenge
3
placed or laid over something else so that both things are still evident
superimposed
Time period in which there was more focus on humans in artwork
Neolithic
One way in which the Running Horned Woman tells us she is a goddess or Shaman?
Costume
Body Paint/Scars
Detail
Position of Body
The purpose for the two heads in the Tlatlico female figurine
Duality
The period of time when agriculture began
Neolithic
intentionally modifying the body to create designs or pictures on skin
scarification
When some elements of a design are in profile and some are from the front
Composite View or Twisted Perspective
This feature was notibly different on the Beaker with Ibex motifs than had been seen in the past.
Registers and placement of images in a particular space
Mortis and Tenon
3000 BC to NOW
recognizable subjects that are visually portrayed in simplified manners or not realistically
stylized
When a "sculpture" is carved into a wall
Relief
It was made prior to the rise of Islam in the middle east.
Anthropomorphic stele
Dinnerware