GLOBAL PREHISTORY

 

CLASS VIDEOS:

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

HOMEWORK:

August 26, 2023

Study for Unit 1 Art ID Quiz

on August 30 :

Memorize the Identification for the

11 Works

in the Global Prehistoric Unit 

Title & Medium & Culture

Use Khan Academy 250 & Your Notes 

AUGUST 24, 2023:

IN YOUR COMPOSITION BOOKS

& Using Khan Academy 250 & the Videos Below

https://smarthistory.org/tlatilco-figurines/

1) Construct an ( 8) Visual & ( 8) Contextual Characteristic T- Chart on #10 Tlatico Female Figurine &

2) Make a Finger Puppet of the Work

Vegetable DIY Finger Puppets - Made To Be A Momma

How to Make Two-Finger Puppets - Puppets Around the World - Aunt Annie's Crafts



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

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)

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