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1

An example of parietal art is
A)a Venus figurine
B)a decorated spear thrower
C)a low-relief carving on a cave wall
D)a pendant
2

One of the first examples of cave painting to be discovered was
A)the painting of a bison at Altamira in Spain
B)the painting of a wild horse at Lascaux
C)the rhinoceros painting from Chauvet Cave
D)the painting of a great auk from Cosquer
3

Which of the following images are rarely encountered in Paleolithic cave paintings?
A)cattle
B)bison
C)horses
D)humans
4

Which of the following is true of Lascaux Cave?
A)Although the cave paintings were discovered in the 1940s, the paintings have not deteriorated at all
B)The site was discovered by Henri Breuil
C)a three-dimensional replica of the site, known as Lascaux II, has been created by the French government
D)all of the above
5

Which of the following is not true of Grotte Chauvet?
A)60% of the images are rhinoceroses and carnivores
B)the entrance is underwater
C)the cave images are more than 30,000 years old
D)the site was discovered in 1994.
6

Which are the most common images in Upper Paleolithic cave paintings?
A)naturalistic representations of animals
B)human figures
C)hand stencils
D)abstract signs
7

To make the paints, cave water was mixed with
A)red ochre
B)white porcelain clay
C)charcoal
D)all of the above
8

Archaeological finds suggest that the painted caves were primarily lighted by
A)campfires
B)torches
C)candles
D)stone lamps
9

Which of the following were not used to produce low relief carvings on cave walls?
A)burins
B)hammers
C)stone picks
D)natural irregularities in the cave walls
10

Batons are examples of
A)parietal art
B)low-relief carvings
C)mobiliary art
D)none of the above
11

Batons may have been used as
A)spear throwers
B)fertility symbols
C)pendants
D)shaft-straighteners
12

Recent analyses of the so-called Venus figurines show that
A)they were always made of bone
B)they date to the Aurignacian period
C)they are wearing a variety of headgear, body bandeaux, and skirts
D)all of the above
13

Upper Paleolithic personal ornaments include
A)earrings
B)beads
C)bracelets
D)rings
14

Although at least 80% of cave art dates the the Magdalenian period, recent radiocarbon dates show that
A)the Grotte Chauvet paintings date to the Aurignacian period
B)Lascaux dates to the Aurignacian period
C)Altamira dates to the Aurignacian period
D)nearly all mobiliary art dates to the Aurignacian period
15

Today, most scholars reject the interpretation of Paleolithic art as hunting magic because
A)there are few hunting scenes in cave art
B)the animals that appear most frequently in cave art are not the animals that were commonly hunted by Upper Paleolithic hunters
C)Upper Paleolithic hunters never hunted horses
D)fish sometimes appear in cave art
16

The French scholar André Leroi-Gourhan suggested that
A)the images in cave art reflected a structural opposition between men and women
B)the images were designed to communicate traditional myths
C)the images were a form of hunting magic
D)the images reflected the differences between the summer and winter seasons
17

Rock art is known from
A)Southeast Asia
B)the southern Levant
C)Africa and Australia
D)all of the above





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