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16 Cards in this Set
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Scholars see the transport of bluestones to Stonehenge from more than 150 miles away as a sign of ________________.
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connections to an ancestral homeland
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Stonehenge was built in __________-and-__________ construction.
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post; lintel
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Which of the following is NOT a type of ceramics?
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kiln
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Which material's properties make it best suited for weapons and tools?
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Bronze
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The world's earliest pieces of art come from South Africa and were probably used as__________.
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Crayons
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Modern humans first appeared in ____________.
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Africa
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Prehistory includes all of human existence prior to the development of ___________.
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written records
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The earliest known cave paintings date to approximately ____________BCE.
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30,000
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Chauvet Cave is located in __________.
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southern France
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The artists of Altamira used the ____________ in the cave walls and ceilings to show the form of the animal.
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irregularities
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Small-scale female sculptures from the Upper Paleolithic period were once called __________figures, which implied a religious association, although this has not yet been proven.
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Venus
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Which of the following is an example of a relief sculpture?
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Bison from Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France
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The word "Neolithic" means __________.
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New Stone
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The word megalithic means __________.
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Large Stone
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Which of the following was NOT an effect of the end of the last ice age?
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the use of art in ritual
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Prehistoric people often coated their floors with powdered __________.
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ocher
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