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Paleolithic period |
"Old" Stone age. 30,000 bce. People were nomads--moving from place to place. Hunter/ Gatherers. Art was either portable or cave art. Cave art was a way to communicate to each other and to survive in the natural world. Cave art could also have been used in rituals. |
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Strict Profile View |
The profile is the only view of an animal where the head, body, tail, and all four legs were visible. Artists from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic painted in the same manner in profile. |
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Mesolithic |
Middle stone age A transitional period between Paleolithic and Neolithic |
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Neolithic |
New Stone Age. 9000 bce. Humans began to domesticate plants and animals and settle in fixed abodes. |
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Hall of the Bulls |
The oldest and best known painted caves are in France. The Cave at Lascaux is the most famous of them. Featuring a herd of various animals. Artists painted them in strict profile. Except the bull. It's two horns was shown from the front. |
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Holenstein-Stadel Holenstein-Stadel, Germany 30,000 bce. Ivory 12" high |
One of the earliest sculptures found is an ivory statuette of a human with a feline head. Perhaps its purpose was used in religious rituals. |
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Venus of Willendorf Willendorf Austria ca. 28,000-25,000 bce Limestone 4 1/4 " high |
Venus of Willendorf is small portable sculpturemade of limestone. The figurine appears to have a hat for hair The woman is out of proportion. She is rounded with extremely large breasts. Perhaps she is a goddess of fertility |
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Stonehenge Salisbury plain, Southern England 2500-1600 bce Circle 97 feet in diameter; Trilithons 24 feet high. |
Stonehenge is the most famous monument in Europe. A henge is an arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle surrounded by a ditch. A ring called a trilithon-three stone construction is on the outside Perhaps this arrangement was used for a funerary site by neolithic people.it seems in its latest phase to have been an astronomical calendar |
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Megalith |
A megalith is great stone used in construction of prehistoric structures Weighs up to 50 tons |
