HUM101 Final Israel Questions and Answers | New One | Grade A+

Paleolithic cave paintings may have been intended to do what? Ans: Serve as magic charms to ensure successful hunting, function as lunar calendars, predicting seasonal migration of the animals, and conjure game by depicting it. Paleolithic cave paintings did NOT Ans: Commemorate the dead buried in caves. Which of the following statements reflects the changed thinking regarding prehistoric art due to the discovery of Chauvet Cave? Ans: Art did not necessarily evolve in a linear progression from its early days in prehistory. Why do Paleolithic female figurines vastly outnumber those representing males? Ans: Females played a central role in the culture. Implying a community's sense of historical continuity, what was buried beneath some of the Neolithic Çatalhöyük houses? Ans: Human bodies and skulls. What is a shaman? Ans: A person who communicates with the spiritual world. According to the most recent discoveries, Stonehenge was constructed as a? Ans: Burial ground. The Anasazi built their kivas with a small, round hole in the floor to? Ans: Represent a belief that their ancestors emerged from the depths of the Earth. The Ise shrine is razed and then rebuilt every 20 years to? Ans: Ritually celebrate renewa