Art Through the Ages
Across
- 2. "in the year of our Lord"
- 3. artistic medium made from animals tusks
- 4. images, symbols, or signs created to express information or an idea
- 8. art period that covers Europe, the Mediterranean, and western Asia from the Old Stone Age to around 2500 BCE
- 11. any object made by a human being typically an item of cultural or historical interest
- 12. term for the curved shaped area containing most of the fertile land in the Middle East
- 13. art made of several colors
- 17. site of the world's oldest and largest temple made of petroglyphs
- 18. any image created on a rock surface by chiseling, engraving.
- 19. a person who studies human history and pre-history through excavation of sites and analysis of artifacts
Down
- 1. art made of only one color
- 2. the study of the creation of human artifacts such as sculptures, paintings, and buildings
- 5. before the common era
- 6. massive step pyramids invented by the Sumerians
- 7. site of a circular rings of prehistoric megaliths
- 9. writing system invented by the Sumerians
- 10. site of important prehistoric cave paintings
- 14. art created with large stones
- 15. Greek word for "land between two rivers"
- 16. mobile pieces of art that were cut and shaped from stone, wood, or rocks