1.

Since the late nineteenth century, we have known that _____PREHISTORIC_____

peoples, peoples who lived before the time of writing and so of recorded history,
drew on the walls of caves.
2. Most scholars believe that the cave wall paintings possessed some sort of
_____AGENCY______ that is, they were created to exert some power or authority
over the world of those who came into contact with them.
3. The Chauvet drawings suggest that art created by people obtained a very high
degree of ______Sophistication________ .
4. Cave paintings and small sculptural objects may be the first instance of what we
have come to call ____ART________ .
5. Agricultural production seems to have originated about 10,000 BCE in the
____FERTILE______ _______CRESCENT______ , (2 words) an area arching from
southwest Iran, across the foothills of the Taurus Mountains in southwestern Turkey,
then southward into Lebanon.
6. ____________WOMEN HOLDING AN ANIMAL HORN__ _ (5 words) was originally
part of a sculpture on a great stone in front of a Paleolithic rock shelter in high bas
relief.
7. Gradually, as the climate warmed, ____NEOLITHIC____ culture spread across
Europe.
8. The painting Wall painting showing the capturing of baiting of a deer suggests
that the hunt played a significant role in Neolithic culture, as it did in
____PALEOLITHIC______ times.
9. _____CORBELING_______ is a construction technique in which the layers of flat
stones are piled one upon the other, with each layer projecting slightly inward as
the wall rises.
10. Over the course of the Neolithic era, called the _____JOMON______ period in
Japan (12,000-300 BCE), their work became increasingly decorative.
______JOMON________ means cord markings and refers to the fact that potters
decorated many of their wares by presenting cord into the damp clay.
11. The Neolithic cultures culture that flourished along the banks of the Yellow River
in China beginning about 5000 BCE also produced _____POTTERY______ .
12. Around ____3000___ BCE artisans in Egypt had begun using the potters wheel.
13. The Nok people were interested in _________ABSTRACT
GEOMETRICAL__________ (2 words) representation of facial features in their
ceramic figures.
14. Stonehenge is one of the greatest examples of a ______MYSTERY________ and
embodies the growing importance of agricultural production in the northern reaches
of Europe.

15. Archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson of the University of Sheffield speculates that
villagers at ____WOODHENGE_____ would have transported their dead down an
avenue leading to the River Avon, then journeyed downstream, in a ritual
symbolizing the passage to the afterlife, finally arriving at an avenue leading up to
Stonehenge from the river.
16. The ___________OUTER BANK________ (2 words) at Stonehenge is a ditch, 360
feet in diameter, and is the oldest construction at the site, originally exposing the
white limestone beneath the surface soil to form a giant circle.
17. Much of our understanding of prehistoric cultures comes from stories that have
survived in cultures around the world that developed without writingthat is,
_________ORAL CULTURE________ (2 words) such as the San cultures of
Zimbabwe, and the Oceanic peoples of Tahiti in the South Pacific.
18. Around 9000 BCE, for reasons that are still hotly debatedperhaps a
combination of overhunting and climate changethe peoples of the Americas
developed _____AGRICULTURAL_______ societies.
19. Stories describing the origination of a peoples origins are called
____________CREATION MYTH___________ . (2 words)
20. William M. Ferguson and Arthur H. Rohn, two prominent scholars of the
_______ANASAZI______ , have described them : They were a Neolithic people
without a beast of burden, the wheel, metal, or a written language, yet they
constructed magnificent masonry housing and ceremonial structures, irrigation
works, and water impoundments.
21. What is remarkable about the _____PUEBLO________ peoples, who despite the
fact that they speak several different languages, share a remarkably common
culture, is that many aspects of their culture have survived and are practiced today
much as they were in ancient times.
22. An _________EMERGENCE TALE______________ (2 words) is a form of creation
myth.
23. The belief that the forces of nature are inhabited by living spirits is called
____ANIMISM_______ .
24. The three sacred treasures of ____SHINTO_______ are a sword, a mirror, and a
jewel necklace.
25. In almost all prehistoric cultures, communication with the spiritual world was
conducted in special precincts or places by a ruler who was believed to be a
representative of the ______DEVINE_______ world on earth.
26. In ____LOCUST GROVE_______ , Oklahoma there is an archeological site built by
those whom the book calls the Woodlands people.
27. Artifacts carbon dated at the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio indicate the mound is
believed to be the product of the _________FORT ANCIENT_______ (2 words) people.

28. The drive, which we will see in the art of the Bronze Age of the Middle Eastfor
instance, in the haunting image of a dying lion in the palace complex of an Assyrian
king in Ninevehremains constant from the beginnings of _______ART______ to the
present day. (As a side note: the actual word art was not part of our language until
ca. 1100).
29. One of the key moments in the _____JAPANESE_____ Creation myth is when the
heavenly deities order Izangli and Iszanami to descend to the nebulous place, and
by helping each other, to consolidate it in the terra firma.