Assignment #5_ Rock Art

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Dec 6, 2023

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Apollo 11 Cave Stones in Namibia 1. How old was the charcoal drawing of an animal found in a rock shelter in the Huns Mountains of Namibia? - Approximately 25,000 years ago 2. How did archaeologists figure out the date for the fragment if they couldn't test it? - Archaeologists estimate when the rocks were buried by radiocarbon dating the archaeological layer in which they were found. 3. What was the Middle Stone Age? - The Middle Stone Age was a period between the Early Stone Age and the Later Stone Age, generally considered to have begun around 280,000 years ago and ended around 50–25,000 years ago. 4. When did Homo sapiens develop in Africa? - Genetic and fossil evidence shows that Homo sapiens developed on the continent of Africa more than 100,000 years ago. 5. Ostrich eggshell fragments were found in the cave along with the painted fragment. What was the function of the eggshells? - The eggshells were used as containers for pigment/paint. 6. If the rock fragment shows a supernatural creature that is part human/part animal, then what might have been happening in the cave? - These illustrations may suggest a complex system of shamanistic belief. 7. The article states that the cave stones demonstrate that Middle Stone Age homo sapiens were "not only anatomically modern but behaviorally modern as well." What does this mean? - This means that the early humans possessed the new and unique capacity for modern symbolic thought, “the human capacity,” long before what was previously understood. Rock Art in Algeria, Running Horned Woman 8. During the French colonial occupation of Algeria, several Europeans gained international fame for their publications of the Tassili n'Ajjer rock art but which local group of people had long known that the drawings were there? - The Tuareg.

9. What was Lhote's incorrect, racist hypothesis about the artwork? - The painting that was discovered showed influences of Egyptians and was not African. 10. The Running Horned Woman was likely made around what date range? - 6,000–4,000 B.C.E 11. What is the likely function of the Running Horned Woman painting? - Ritual, Rite, or Ceremony 12. Why is the rock art in danger of being lost today? - Rock paintings have suffered from irreversible damage and outright vandalism.

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