Exam 6: Expanding Intellectual Horizons: Arts and Ideas in the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Age

What do the hunting technologies new to the Upper Paleolithic and New Stone Age imply about subsistence changes when compared to the Middle Paleolithic?

Compared to a spear thrown without one, a spear thrown with a spear-thrower:

Some have labeled the so-called Venus figurines "fertility symbols." Defend or refute this assertion.

The spear-thrower, an invention of the Upper Paleolithic, worked:

Among the oldest sites in southwest Asia exhibiting a shift to a stone tool technology based on blade production are:

J.D. Lewis-Williams and T.A. Dowson explain the geometric depictions in Upper Paleolithic art (lines, zigzags, grids, and concentric circles) as:

Lewis-Williams and Dowson suggest that Upper Paleolithic shamans painted the following while in a trance-like state:

In the Upper Paleolithic, habitation sites tend to be:

What is the time period of the Aurignacian tradition:

The Upper Paleolithic blade technology was more efficient than Levallois because:

The Upper Paleolithic tradition characterized by retouched blades, engraving tools called burins, and stone scrapers is called the:

What is the significance of the Vogelherd Lion-man and other Upper Paleolithic artifacts depicting half-human, half-animal creatures?

In terms of the subsistence base, quite clearly when compared to that of the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Ages, the Upper Paleolithic and Late Stone Ages:

What significant artifacts have been found at the Hohle Fels Cave site? How do these artifacts reflect the development of the modern human mind?

The Upper Paleolithic site of Mal'ta is perhaps best known for the presence of:

Using the Messages from the Past section of this chapter as a jumping off point, how can we explain the wanton destruction of art and architecture seen in both the modern and the ancient world?

How did the settlement pattern of the Upper Paleolithic differ from that of the Middle Paleolithic?

Compare Middle and Upper Paleolithic burials. What do such differences signify about these societies?

Coolidge and Wynn (2009) include in their enumeration of the archaeological correlates of the modern human mind:

The function of a spear-thrower is to: