Unit One:In the Beginning…Global Prehistory

Guiding Questions

•Why make art when, in the prehistoric world, there are so many more important things to do?

•What aspects of prehistoric art have continued through the ages?

•What possible meanings might prehistoric art have had for its original audience, and how do those contrast with the meanings prehistoric works have for audiences today?

Instructional Activity: We Don’t Farm, Write, Live in Houses, Wear Clothes, or Invent the Wheel, but

We Have Art

The Ambum Stone

Instructional Activity: Animals and the Environment

Kleiner, p. 21: “Art in the Old Stone Age”

http://lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/00.xml

Bushel with ibex

motifs

Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine

Jade cong

Formative Assessment:

Evaluating Critical Analysis

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/stonehenge/construction.php

Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Instructional Activity:

Humans, or Are They?

Anthropomorphic stele Tlatilco female figurineRunning horned woman

Instructional Activity: Humans, or Are They?

Summative Assessment: Essay Writing