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Essential Questions: What is the function of Prehistoric Art and Architecture?

Essential Questions: What is the function of Prehistoric Art and Architecture? How do we get meaning from these works and monuments? What meaning can we glean from these objects and monuments? What are the similarities between objects regardless of their origin?

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Essential Questions: What is the function of Prehistoric Art and Architecture?

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  1. Essential Questions: What is the function of Prehistoric Art and Architecture? How do we get meaning from these works and monuments? What meaning can we glean from these objects and monuments? What are the similarities between objects regardless of their origin? What influence have these objects had on other artists? What does influence look like? How do you recognize it?

  2. The Function of Prehistoric Art and Architecture • Connected the worlds of the living and the spirits • Established social hierarchies • Helped people learn and remember critical information about the natural world • A fundamental aspect of human development

  3. Theories on the Meaning of Prehistoric Art

  4. How cave painting got discovered

  5. Theories on the Meaning of Prehistoric Cave Painting

  6. Building Göbekli Tepe Click for Smithsonian information The Birth of Religion , Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, predates Stonehenge by 6,000 yrs. We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art, and religion. Now the world’s oldest temple suggests the urge to worship sparked civilization.

  7. Theories on the Meaning of Stonehenge

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