CIGD2104 Graphic Design History: Prehistoric Visual Communications
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What is the estimated age of early human markings found in Africa?

  • 2,000–1,000 BCE
  • Over 200,000 years old (correct)
  • Less than 1,000 years old
  • 15,000–10,000 BCE

    • What was used to make the color black in prehistoric times?

  • Fat as a medium
  • A range of warm tones
  • Charcoal (correct)
  • Red and yellow iron oxides

    • Which location is known for the cave painting dating back to c. 15,000–10,000 BCE?

  • Lascaux caves in southern France (correct)
  • Mesopotamian city-state
  • Altamira in Spain
  • San Raphael Swell in southern Utah

    • What is the significance of the Fremont rock painting from San Raphael Swell?

    <p>It represents the use of a palette of pigments mixed with fat as a medium</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What dominated life in the Mesopotamian city-state?

    <p>Religion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of temple compound dominated the Mesopotamian city?

    <p>Ziggurat</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the logical material for record keeping in Sumer?

    <p>Clay</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did the early Sumerian pictographic tablet structure information?

    <p>By dividing information into grid zones</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What innovation altered the nature of writing, evolving pictographs into an abstract sign writing called cuneiform?

    <p>Using a triangular-tipped stylus to create wedge-shaped strokes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the drilled hole denote in the archaic tablet fragment from the late fourth millennium BCE?

    <p>A quantity of goods</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did scribes increase writing speed around 2500 BCE?

    <p>By replacing the stylus with a triangular-tipped one</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the Sumerian symbols for 'star,' 'head,' and 'water' evolve into by 2500 BCE?

    <p>'Cuneiform' writing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What made writing easier and the pictographs less literal around 2800 BCE?

    <p>Turning the pictographs on their sides</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the temple chiefs consciously seek a system for recording?

    <p>Answers to specific questions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did early Sumerian tablets apparently list commodities by?

    <p>'Pictographic drawings' of objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Cuneiform' writing evolved from which early type of script?

    <p>'Wedge-shaped strokes'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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