Though the earliest of rock art appeared in the form of sculpture and engravings, figurative art portrayed in the Upper Paleolithic paintings:
a. includes a lot of humans, obviously hunting.
b. is of common, everyday experiences showing the home life of Upper Paleolithic peoples.
c. includes abstract designs rendered two-dimensionally.
d. is in accessible parts of caves, almost as if they
served as murals in a living room where Upper Paleolithicpeoples lived.
e. was painted in total darkness, probably by telepathic artists.
c
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Neandertals were incapable of producing Upper Paleolithic tools
a. True b. False
Who among the following individuals was a supporter of evolutionary change?
a. Leonardo da Vinci b. Jean Baptiste Lamarck c. Aristotle d. George Cuvier
Please write 2-3 sentences identifying the person, place, or thing in terms of age, location, and significance.Vænget Nord
What will be an ideal response?
How has Lewis-Williams explained the cave paintings at Lascaux?
a. The paintings represented totems, from which lineages or clans believed themselves to be descended. b. The paintings were left by hunters seeking to mark the territory as their own, and provided a sign to other hunters that they were not welcome. c. The paintings had no real symbolic meaning, and were essentially "art-for-art's sake", appreciated for its aesthetic value but containing little cultural meaning. d. The paintings are related to altered states of consciousness, and ultimately represent Upper Paleolithic people pondering the meaning of life. e. The paintings are ancient depictions of instructions on the taboo of conducting ritual vision quests.