Matching Pairs Prehistory- Questions to revisOnline version Questions to practice. by Isabel Vílchez Ocaña 1 Name the four types of megaliths 2 Name the different groups of Hominid you have studied 3 What did these paintings depict (representar)? 4 Write a difference between Palaeolithic and Neolithic art. 5 Name the three ages the Metal Age is divided. 6 What were the first art exhibitions related to? 7 What do Palaeolithic and Neolithic mean? 8 What are the most important changes in the process of hominization? 9 What is surplus? 10 How is the Palaeolithic art called? 11 Characteristics of the Neolithic period. 12 What are megaliths ( big stones)? 13 Characteristics of the Palaeolithic Period In Palaeolithic Art, the paintings represented hunting scenes and in the Neolithic Art the human figure became more important They were related to the belief in the forces of nature and certain magical rituals. The supply of products in excess. They mean Old Stone and New Stone They were called Cave art. - Use of polished stone tools. - Discovery of agriculture and livestock farming. - Sedentary lifestyle. - Birth of craftsmanship. - First trades - Use of carved stone tools. - Nomads. - Discovery and use of fire. - Hunter-gatherers communities. - increasing their cranial capacity - Bipedalism. - language abilities ( appearance of language). They depicted wild animals—deer, bison, horses, etc.—and hunting scenes menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs and stone alignment Copper, Bronze and Iron Age The first monuments using big blocks of stone. Homo habilis, Australopithecus, Homo Erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo Sapiens