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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.
Venus of Willendorf
Austria
28,000 - 20,000 BC
Limestone
Paleolithic
What do you know about this image?
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.
What do you know about this image?
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
Spotted horses and negative hand imprints
wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France,
ca. 22,000 BC
11' 22" long
Paleolithic
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
Two bisons
Reliefs
Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France
ca. 15,000 - 10,000 BC
Clay
each 2' long
Bison with turned head
fragmentary spearthrower
La Madeleine, France
ca. 12,000 BC
reindeer horn
4" long
Chinese Horse
Lascaux, France
ca. 15,000 - 13,000 BC
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
Human figure
Ain Ghazal, Jordan
ca. 6750 - 6250 BC
Plaster painted and inlaid with bitumen
3' 5 3/8" high
Louvre, Paris
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
Landscape painting with volcanic eruption (?)
Wallpainting from Level VII, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
ca. 6150 BC
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
Skara Brae, Scotland
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
2550 - 1600 BC
Neolithic
Circle is 97' in diameter
Trilithons 24' high
Prehistoric Sites in Europe
Neolithic Sites in Anatolia and the Near East