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Period and Artists



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Figures such as the Woman from Willendorf are sometimes termed "goddess" or "" figurines. 

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Our hunter-gatherer ancestors of the Upper Paleolithic period lived in small groups. 

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Paleolithic sculptors depicted more frequently than they did other subjects. 

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Bark painters in Australia today still use the -ray style. 

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The rock-wall painting at Cogul in Spain shows numerous small figures--men, women, children, animals, and even . 

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The interiors of houses at Skara Brae were equipped with space-saving built-in . 

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The dolmen, a tomb chamber, was formed of huge upright stones supporting one or more tablelike rocks or . 

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A pile of stone or earth and stones that served both as a prehistoric burial site and as a marker of underground tombs is called a . 

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A is a circle formed by stones or wooden posts, often surrounded by a ditch with built-up embankments. 

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Neolithic culture persisted in northern Europe until about BCE. 

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The Horse and Sun Chariot from Trundholm was engraved with an abstract design of concentric rings, zigzags, circles, spirals, and loops; a thin sheet of beaten was then applied and pressed into the incised patterns. 

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The Neolithic houses of Jericho were built of bricks made of ? 

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The Woman from Brassempouy was sculpted in . 

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Hundreds of markings, such as grids, circles, and dots appear in European caves. 

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What we perceive as was a matter of necessity to these ancient image makers. 

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Another name for Old Stone Age is . 

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The carver of the Woman from Brassempouy captured the essence of a head; that is, what psychologists call the image--those elements that reside in our generalized memory of a human head. 

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Enclosure of space with at least some measure of aesthetic intent is a definition of . 

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The cave paintings of Chauvet were made around BCE. 

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The animals painted in the caves at Lascaux have horns, eyes, and hooves that are shown as seen from the front, while heads and bodies are rendered in . 

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