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  • Home
  • Intro to APAH
  • Global-Prehistory
  • Art of the Pacific Rim
  • African Art
  • SANBAN.
  • Egyptian Art
  • Ancient Greece
  • Etruscan Art
  • Roman Art
  • Early Europe -Late Antiquity
  • Byzantine Art
  • Islamic Art
  • Indigenous-Am-Art
  • Early Medieval Art
    • Romanesque
  • Gothic Art
  • Proto Ren. in Italy
  • Northern European Ren.
  • Early Italian Renaissance
  • High Renaissance
  • Mannerism
  • Baroque
  • Spanish-Colonial-America
    • Image Exams
  • Art of Japan
  • Art-of-China
  • South Asian Art
  • West and Central Asia
  • Images Exam Review
  • English Enlightenment
  • Rococo and Neoclassical
  • Romanticism and Realism
  • Photography as Art
  • Impressionism and Post Impressionism
  • Symbolism and 19th Century Architecture
  • Modernism 1900-1945
  • Modernism 1945- 1980
  • Global-Contemporary
  • APAH INDEX CARDS AND CONTENT AREA REVIEW
  • APAH Exam Review
  • Post-Exam Projects

GLOBAL PREHISTORY

HOMEWORK: 9/4 & 9/8

           1) WATCH & TAKE NOTES ON

               VIDEO: 5 THINGS YOU                         SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

                 THE PALEOTHIC AGE                   

             2)COMPLETE THE PREHISTORY 

           RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT BELOW

                            USE THE KHAN ACADEMY 250 SITE, THE VIDEOS BELOW &

                                                       THE INTERNET

                       SEND ME THE DOCUMENT OR THE PHOTO WHEN COMPLETE

                         

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GLOBAL THEMES:

N.I.F.S

NATURE, IDENTITY,

FERTILITY & SURVIVAL

Key Ideas

  • *Early humans responded to the beautiful and aesthetic (Makapansgat Pebble)-ultimately responding by creating object and images
  • *Earliest works are cave paintings and portable sculptures
  • *Conjectures are made about the meaning of prehistoric works
  • *Monuments like Stonehenge show that people were able to build structures made of the post and lintel system.
  • *The need to create is one of the strongest human impulses.
  • *Focus on materials indigenous to the environment/geography
  • *Since context is largely unknown, focus on original location and content

ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS & KNOWLEDGE

*Human Expression existed across the globe-Art  existed before written record

*Prehistoric human behavior & artistic expression was influenced by changing geographic environments

*Periods of Global Prehistory-

Paleolithic ( old stone)

Mesolithic ( middle stone age)

Neolithic (new stone age)

*First peoples were small groups of hunter-gatherers whose focuses was survival

*Early humans created practical tools, ritual & symbolic objects made from ceramics, painted on rock surfaces, sculptures of woman and animals as well as architecture ( stone megalithic installations)

KNOW THESE IMAGES: 

1.Apollo 11 stones
2. Great Hall of the Bulls
3. Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine
4. Running Horned woman
5. Beaker with ibex motifs
6. Anthropomorphic Stele
7. Jade Cong
8. Stonehenge
9. The Ambum Stone
10. Tlatilco female figurine
11. Terra cotta fragment