Practice question · True or false
Cave art gets progressively more sophisticated over time, from crude beginnings at Chauvet to mastery at Lascaux.
Hints
- Check the dates of the two caves against each other.
- The technically dazzling one is the older.
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False
Why
Backwards. Chauvet is roughly 15,000 years OLDER than Lascaux and technically dazzling, perspective, implied motion, the wall’s own contours used as an animal’s shoulder. Art history does not begin crude and improve.
Practise The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
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More questions on The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
- Order the symbolic record, oldest first.
- Complete the reframing of the "revolution."
- Sort each claim about cave art: supported or not supported by the evidence?
- What does the placement and content of cave art tell us?
- Symbolic artefacts appear far earlier in Africa than in Europe, yet the 'revolution' is dated from the…