AP Art History Prehistoric Art – Flashcards

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown, possible hunting purpose N/D: Apollo 11 stones/25,500-23,500 B.C. Function: Unknown, Handheld Form: Stylized , Small, Handheld Content: Animal like figure Context: Unknown Medium: Charcoal, ocher, and white on rock Patron: Unknown Location: Huns Mountains, Southwest Namibia

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Sacrum in the shape of a canine/14,000-1,000 B.C. Function: Unknown Form: Stylized, Fairly small Content: Used to be the sacrum of a camel which was carved into looking like the skull of a dog Context: Most likely hunters carved this Medium:Bone Patron: Unknown Location: Tequixquiac, Mexico

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Beaker with ibex motifs/4,200 - 3,500 B.C.E. Function: Unknown, possible burial purposes Form: Stylized, Motifs Content: A beaker wih a goat in the middle and dogs on the rim with birds on the very top Context: Means people manipulated clay as well as started and controlled a fire to create this. Medium: Clay Patron: Unknown Location:Susa, Iran

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Anthomorphic stele/4th millenium B.C. Function: Headstones for graves Form: Stylized Content: Humanlike figure Context: believed to mark graves as headstones ,representing the person buried Medium: Stone Patron: Unknown Location: Arabian Peninsula

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Jade cong/4,200 - 3,500 B.C.E. Function: Unknown Form: Paralle lines, circular shapes Content: Figures made of jade with a hole in the middle Context: Found around burial sites Medium: Jade Patron: Unknown Location: Liangzhu, China

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Stonehenge/2,500 - 1,600 B.C.E. Function: Unknown Form: Large ,heavy stones placed upright and on top of each other Content: Large Stones placed in certain locations in the ground upright Context:Seasonal and astronomical calendar or a temple built with digging ditches for the stones and using ropes to pull up the stones. Medium: Stone Patron: Unknown Location:Wiltshire, UK

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D:Running Horned Woman/ 6,000 - 4,000 B.C.E Function: Unknown Form: Stylyzed, twisted perspective Content: A large, horned woman surrounded by smaller humans. Context: Could be representing some event due to some headless figures as well as animism in woman's horns Medium: Pigment on rock Patron: Unknown Location: Tassilin' Ajjer, Algeria

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Great Hall of the bulls/15,000 - 13,000 B.C.E. Function: Unknown Form: Stylized, Twisted perspective Content: many different animals painted on the walls Context: Representation of animals in that area around that time. Medium: Pigments on rock Patron: Unknown Location: Lascaux, France

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: The ambum stone/1,500 B.C.E Function: Unknown, possibly grinding Form: Stylized Content:Ant eater like figure carved out of stone Context: Found on polynesian islands, shows how much humans have spread by the neolithic Medium: Stone Patron: Unknown Location:Ambum Valley Enga Province, Papua New Guinea

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Tlatilco female figure/ 1,200 - 900 B.C.E. Function: Unknown Form: Stylized body and detailed faces Content: Large hips, sometimes two heads Context: Some believe it was medical referring to conjoined twins Medium: Stone Patron: Unknown Location: Tlatilco site, Central Mexico

Period: Prehistoric Artist: Unknown N/D: Terra CottaFragment/ 1st to 6th century B.C. Function: Unknown Form: Circular patterns Content: Teracotta fragment carved with random patterns Context:Terra cotta chunks carved with paterns Medium: Terra Cotta Patron:unknown Location: Solomon Islands, Reef Islands