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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints;



Pech-Merle, Lot, France; Red & yellow ocher mixed with charcoal ; Technique: Rock painting



22,000 BCE, approx. 11'2" long



* primitive writing form
* signs & humans hands: commonblew/spat pigment around hands: "negative"
* dip hand in pigment + press against wall: "positive" imprint
* "signatures"
* mural wall paintings: inspired by rock formation + usage of stone tools

Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison;



Lascaux, France; 15,000-13,000 BCE


Bison 3'8" long



Red & yellow ocher mixed with charcoal



Rock painting ; Strict profile



* rhino, bison
* early appearance of bird-man

Stonehenge (Aerial view);



Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England;


2550-1600 BCE ; Neolithic (New Stone Age) ; Bluestones;



* massive rough cut-stones: megaliths (great stones)
* arrangement in circle: cromlech/henge, often surrounded by ditch
* astronomical observatory
* Middle Ages: work of magician Merlin of King Arthur
* accurate solar calendar