AP Art History Unit 1 vocab

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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.

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PALEOLITHIC

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

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CONTOUR LINES

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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.

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NEOLITHIC

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

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ANTHROPOMORPHIC

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

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TWISTED PERSPECTIVE

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

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POST AND LINTEL

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the period of time before written records

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PREHISTORY

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

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CONG

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

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MEGALITH

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sculpture in which the figures project slightly from the background.

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BAS RELIEF