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Identify prehistoric works while weighing evidence for their materials, settings, and possible purposes.
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Lascaux's Hall of Bulls was painted over many visits, yet the cave shows little sign that people lived there. What does this best support?

At Altamira, how did painters use the natural rock of the cave ceiling when making the bison?
Chauvet's charcoal drawings include lions and rhinoceroses as well as other animals. What is the strongest conclusion about their purpose?

The Running Horned Woman appears in an isolated Tassili rock shelter and wears horns, body decoration, and dance-like accessories. What interpretation is best supported?
At Stonehenge, horizontal stones rest across pairs of upright stones. What architectural system is visible?

A Çatalhöyük house interior has painted walls and plastered animal skulls set into platforms. What does this setting show about art at the site?
The large human figures from 'Ain Ghazal were built over bundled reeds and covered with a modeled surface. What material forms that surface?

The Apollo 11 Cave Stones are hand-sized slabs with animal images made in charcoal, ochre, and white pigment. What is the support material?

A Paleolithic object from Tequixquiac, Mexico, is a naturally shaped animal bone altered to resemble a canine head. What material did its maker use?
A Liangzhu cong has a square outer form, a circular interior opening, and smooth, precise jade surfaces. Which process best describes its making?

At Lascaux, artists used charcoal and ochre and sometimes blew pigment through tubes. Which description best fits how the images were made?

Houses at Çatalhöyük were tightly packed, entered through roof openings, and repeatedly rebuilt. What way of living does this evidence show?
At Çatalhöyük, people buried the dead beneath platforms and floors inside houses. What does this practice show?
Moving and shaping Stonehenge's enormous sarsens required labor over generations. What does this best reveal about Neolithic society?
A jade cong required exceptional labor to abrade and is commonly found in tomb contexts. What does this evidence most strongly suggest?
Making the 'Ain Ghazal figures required heating limestone to produce lime plaster and building figures on reed cores. What Neolithic development does this help demonstrate?
The unlabeled marker is in the Dordogne region of southwest France, at a cave discovered in 1940 with painted bulls, horses, and stags. Which site is marked?

The unlabeled marker is in northern Spain's Cantabria region, where a celebrated painted ceiling includes bison. Which site is marked?

The unlabeled marker lies near modern Amman, Jordan, where large Neolithic plaster human figures were found. Which site is marked?

The blank date on the timeline is about 25,500 BCE. Which work belongs at that position?

The blank date on the timeline is about 6500 BCE. Which work belongs at that position?

The blank date on the timeline is about 2500 BCE. Which work belongs at that position?

Charcoal used in a cave painting can sometimes be radiocarbon dated directly, unlike mineral ochre. Why?
Images of animals at Lascaux have led to theories about hunting magic. What can the paintings alone establish?
Stonehenge has alignments related to the sun's yearly course. What can that evidence support without overclaiming?
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