Unit 1: Prehistoric Art

Exam Weight: 4%
Dates Covered: 30,000 BCE - 500 BCE
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1.1 Intro to AP Art History Course

We'll go over what to expect with the AP Art History Exam and basic skills needed to successfully complete the class.

1.2 Global Prehistoric Art
Explore the work left behind by cultures who predate written language, understand how we know what we know, and explore what we still have yet to understand.

Unit 1 Required Works 

1.  Apollo 11 Stones Oldest known Visual Art
2. Great Hall of the Bulls Cave paintings, collaborative art over time
3. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine Important lesson of historical documentation and dating a work of art
4. Running Horned Woman possible pre-egyptian Hathor Goddess representation
5. Bushel with ibex motifs stylization of art
6. Anthropomorphic stele developing more sophisticated tools to work quarry  large stone, transport it, and carve detailed designs.
7. Jade Cong developing more sophisticated tools to work quarry  large stone, transport it, and carve detailed designs.
8. Stonehenge shows applied knowledge of astronomical alignment. Something that has to have taken generations to develop before it could be applied.
9. The Ambum stone developing functional art - it's a pestle used for grinding up materials (plants, or stone) likely used for ceremonial purposes - not every day use- so it maintains its designs.
10. Tlatilco female figurine stylizing figures to represent ideas more than document what someone look like.
11. Terra cotta fragment
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