AP Art History Unit 1 vocab

Old Stone Age:  40,000-8,000 BCE in the Near East 40,000-4,000 BCE in Europe during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings.

• NEOLITHIC

• PALEOLITHIC

• PREHISTORY

• TRILITHON

drawing lines that result in a drawing that is essentially an outline

• BAS RELIEF

• MOTIFS

• INCISE

• CONTOUR LINES

New Stone Age-8,000- 3,000 BCE in the Near East "New Stone Age"  4,000- 2,000 BCE in Europe.  Later Stone Age when polished stone weapons prevailed.

•  NEOLITHIC

• PREHISTORY

• PALEOLITHIC

• TRILITHON

Having characteristics of the human form, although the form itself is not human.

• STYLIZED

• TWISTED PERSPECTIVE

• ANTHROPOMORPHIC

• FIGURAL

A pose that combines two or more viewpoints in a single representation.

• STELE

• STYLIZED

• BAS RELIEF

• TWISTED PERSPECTIVE

a method of construction in which two posts support a horizontal beam

• MORTISE-AND-TENON

• POST AND LINTEL

• MEGALITH

• MONOLITHIC

the period of time before written records

• CONG

• PREHISTORY

• NEOLITHIC

• ANTHROPOMORPHIC

An ancient Chinese jade artifact. In form, a cong is a tube with a circular inner section and squarish outer section.

• CONG

• MORTISE-AND-TENON

• STELE

• MOTIFS

a stone of great size used in the construction of a prehistoric structure

• TRILITHON

• POST AND LINTEL

• STELE

• MEGALITH

sculpture in which the figures project slightly from the background.

• CONTOUR LINES

•  INCISE

• BAS RELIEF

•  STYLIZED