Before reading Ch. 1: Prehistoric Art, please view the images below and answer the corresponding questions. Submit your opinion in the Comments for this post. Click on the “Comments” link at the bottom of this post and type or copy your answers there. Be sure to number your answers. Please include your initials in the “Name” box. Do not use your full name (the less personal info on the internet the better).
1) Venus of Willendorf
Why would an art form like this have been created by prehistoric man?
2) Lascaux Caves
Why did prehistoric humans paint in deep underground caves?
3) Stonehenge
How and why was Stonehenge built?
WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENTS
- Answer blog questions.
- Read Ch.1: Prehistoric Art
- Study vocabulary words in your lecture packet (QUIZ ON MONDAY)
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1. The prehistoric peoples possibly could have made the Venus as a representation of a Goddess that they worshiped, or maybe as an commemoration to a great woman of their time.
2. They painted these deep in caves because that is where they dwelt. It was a safe place that would be easy to keep warm with fire, and easy to defend against other peoples and creatures.
3. Stonehenge was probably a place of worship, a holy place. With all of the work it would have taken to build it must of been for something higher than the living.