Art History - Exam 1 - Chapter 1 - Art Before History

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Waterworn pebble, resembling a human face, found in Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 30,000,000
Reddish-brown jasperite
2 3/8 inch wide.

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Venus of Willendorf
Austria
28,000 - 20,000 BC
Limestone
Paleolithic

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Human with feline head
Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
ca. 30,000 - 28,000 BC
Mammoth ivory
11 5/8 inch high
One of the oldest known sculptures
It is not certain if it is a composite creature or a human wearing an animal mask.

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Hall of the Bulls,
Lascaux, France
15,000 - 13,000 BC
Paleolithic

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Woman holding Bison Horn
Laussel, France
25,000 - 20,000 BC
Paleolithic
Relief sculpture,
painted limestone

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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints
wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France,
ca. 22,000 BC
11' 22" long
Paleolithic

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Animal facing left
From the Apollo 11 Cave
Namibia
ca. 23,000 BC
Charcoal on stone
5" x 4 1/4"
State Museum of Namibia, Windhoek

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Two bisons
Reliefs
Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France
ca. 15,000 - 10,000 BC
Clay
each 2' long

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Bison with turned head
fragmentary spearthrower
La Madeleine, France
ca. 12,000 BC
reindeer horn
4" long

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Chinese Horse
Lascaux, France
ca. 15,000 - 13,000 BC

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Human skull with restored features
Jericho
ca. 7,000- 6,000 BCE.

Religious connection to ancestors; ancestors live with the living families after their death

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Human figure
Ain Ghazal, Jordan
ca. 6750 - 6250 BC
Plaster painted and inlaid with bitumen
3' 5 3/8" high
Louvre, Paris

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Restored view of a section of Level VI
Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
ca. 6,000 - 5,900 BC
12 successive building levels
no streets, openings in the roofs provided access to the interiors

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Landscape painting with volcanic eruption (?)
Wallpainting from Level VII, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
ca. 6150 BC

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Rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison,
Painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France
ca. 15,000 - 13,000 BC
Bison 3' 8" long

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Skara Brae, Scotland

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Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
2550 - 1600 BC
Neolithic
Circle is 97' in diameter
Trilithons 24' high

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Prehistoric Sites in Europe

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Neolithic Sites in Anatolia and the Near East