| Term | Definition |
|---|
| prehistory | refers to artwork done before written history. No archaeologist can exactally say when a piece of art was done. |
| Paleolithic | The Stone Age - several millennia following 30,000 BCE. the first types of art, incldiing cave paintings, were made |
| Neolithic | (New Stone Age) paintings in this era were done in strict profile with few detailed parts made |
| archaeology | the sceintific study of material remains |
| anthropology | the study of man in relation to distribution, origin, classification, and relationship of race, physical character, environmental and social relations and culture |
| strict profile | the artist drew one side of an animal or human. They didn't show a frontal view or a view inbetween profile and frontal. |
| free standing | a sculpture that stands alone. It is not carved into another material. |
| relief | carved into a wall, or large piece of material |
| BCE | before the common era |
| CE | common era |
| Silhouette | an outline, shadow |
| radiocarbon dating | technology which tests the carbon in a piece of work to determine how long ago it was created |
| landscape | a scenergy of outside natural growth. an arrangement of a painting |
| megalith | "great stone" large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures |
| monolith | a column shaft that is all in one piece. a large, single block or piece of stone used in megalithic structures |
| henge (cromlech) | a circle of monoliths |
| sarsen | any numerous, large sandstone blocks or fragments found in south-central England. also called druid stone, grayweather |
| lintels | a beam used to span openings. |
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