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Left wall of the Hall of the Bulls in the cave at Lascaux, France |
Left wall of the Hall of the Bulls in the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000-14,000 BCE Old Stone Age Oldest and best known painted caves at Lascaux flickering light some coloured silhouettes others are outline drawings strict profile |
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Waterworn pebble resembling a human face,
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Waterworn pebble resembling a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 3,000,000 BCE Reddish-brown jasperite |
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Paleolithic Art |
30000-8000 BCE recognition of abstract images in the natural environment women more common than men regular profile |
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Animal facing left, from the Apollo 11 Cave,
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Animal facing left, from the Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia, ca. 23,000 BCE, Charcoal on stone, State museum of Namibia, Windhoek striped zebra most universal answer to what: animal Paleolithic painters and sculptors almost never depicted humans (esp men) |
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Human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, German |
Human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, German, ca. 30000-28000 BCE. mammoth ivory. human with a feline head uncertain sex Unusual for Stone AGe to represent both animal and human sorcerers and magicians? Important also because of use of ivory |
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Nude Woman, Venus of Willendorf, |
Nude Woman, Venus of Willendorf, from Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000 - 25,000 BCE. Limestone anatomical exaggerations child-bearing capacities ensured survival fertility image? |
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(Venus of Brassempouy) Head of a woman, |
(Venus of Brassempouy) Head of a woman, Brassempouy, ca. 25000-20000 BCE. ivory one of the earliest known realistic representations of the human face |
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Reclining woman, La magdeleine |
Reclining woman, La magdeleine, ca 12000BCE nude woman unsophisticated |
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Woman holding a bison horn, |
Woman holding a bison horn, from Laussel, France, ca. 25000-20000 BCE. painted limestone. one of the oldest known relief sculptures |
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Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d'Audoubert |
Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France, ca 15,000-10,000 BCE. Clay Sculptor built up the clay bison using a stone spatula-like smoothing tool and fingers among largest Paleolithic sculptures brought clay from elsewhere |
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Bison licking its flank, fragmentary spear-thrower |
Bison licking its flank, fragmentary spear-thrower, from La Madeleine, France, ca. 12,000 BCE. Raindeer horn bison has head turned 180 degrees to maintain profile view used a stone burin much more detailed |
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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France |
Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca 23000-22000 BCE purpose unknown hands as signatures? negative imprint |
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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave at Altamira, Spain |
Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave at Altamira, Spain, ca. 13,000-11,000 BCE no ground line represent animals, not locate them almost float in a group? no ground line |
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Aurorchs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet cave, Allon Pont-d'Arc, France, |
Aurorchs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet cave, Allon Pont-d'Arc, France, ca. 30000-28000 or 15,000-13,000 BCE date subject to much controversy oldest painting? |
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Chinese horse, Lascaux |
Chinese horse, Lascaux, ca. 16,000-14,000 BCE |
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Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disembowled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France |
Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disembowled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, 16,000-14,000 BCE earliest example of narrative art deep in the well man makes one of his earliest appearances |
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Neolithic Art |
8000-2300BCE development of stone implements first settled communities jericho had fortified walls birth of munumental sculpture in painting, coherent narratives became common humans would be represented in composite frontal and profile view |
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Stone tower built into the settlement wall |
Stone tower built into the settlement wall, Jericho, ca. 8000-7000 BCE 5-ft. thick walls one tower 30 feet high and 33 feet in diameter without mortar outstanding achievement |
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Human skull with restored features |
Human skull with restored features, from Jericho, ca 7200 - 6700 BCE. Features modeled with plaster, painted, and inlaid with seashells. Neolithic farmers removed the skulls of their dead before burial plaster inlaid the eyes they may have worshiped them world's earliest known "portrait gallery" |
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Human figure, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan |
Human figure, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, ca. 6750-6250 BCE. Plaster, painted and inlaid with bitument earliest large-scale sculptures known |
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Deer hunt detail of a wall painting from level iii çatal höyük turkey |
Deer hunt detail of a wall painting from level iii çatal höyük turkey, ca. 5750 BCE composite of frontal and profile views most descriptive picture of the shape of the human body humans not single, but in large groups variety of poses, subjects, and settings obvious narrative |
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Landscape with volcanic eruption |
Landscape with volcanic eruption (?), Level VII çatal höyük, 6150 BCE world's first landscape |
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Corbeled dome of the main chamber in the passage grave |
Corbeled dome of the main chamber in the passage grave, Newgrange, Ireland, ca. 3200 - 2500 BCE megalith tomb one of the oldest burial monuments in Europe it is a passage grave (tome leading to dome-covered burial chamber) beneath tumulus (earthen burial mound) winter solstice illuminates the passageway and the burial chamber |
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Aerial view of the ruins of Hagar Quim, Malta |
Aerial view of the ruins of Hagar Quim, Malta, ca. 3200-2500 BCE sophisticated both rectilinear and curved forms piled courses (rectangular blocks) |
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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England |
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. 2550-1600 BCE megalith stones this type of henge is limited to england observatory likely sun rises over heel stone at the summer solstice |
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House 1, Skara Brae |
House 1, Skara Brae, ca 3100-2500. |
