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PREHISTORIC PERIOD TIMELINE 40,000 – 8,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic period 10,000 BCE Present interglacial period begins 9,000 – 4,000 BCE Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap 6,500 – 1200 BCE Neolithic Period – Farming in Europe 2300 -800 BCE Bronze Age in Europe 1000 – 50 BCE Proto-historic Iron Age in Europe

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Page 1: 40,000 – 8,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic period  10,000 BCE Present interglacial period begins  9,000 – 4,000 BCE Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap  6,500

PREHISTORIC PERIOD TIMELINE

40,000 – 8,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic period 10,000 BCE Present interglacial period begins 9,000 – 4,000 BCE Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap 6,500 – 1200 BCE Neolithic Period – Farming in Europe 2300 -800 BCE Bronze Age in Europe 1000 – 50 BCE Proto-historic Iron Age in Europe

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PALEOLITHIC ART

Paleolithic Art consists of: Small statuary carvings of ivory, bone,

stone Small figurines of clay Incising Cave paintings and drawings Sculpture created from rocks inside caves

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PALEOLITHIC LIFE

No extant permanent architecture No agriculture or domesticated animals People were nomadic, no permanent

settlements or villages Dwellings were temporary and often

made of mud and wattle

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PALEOLITHIC FIGURINE EXAMPLES:

Woman of Willendorf 22,000 BCE Austria

Lion-Human (male) 30,000 BCE Germany

Woman from Brassenpouy 30,000 BCE France

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SOME CAVE PAINTING SITES:

Lascaux 15,000 BCE Chauvet 30,000 BCE Pech-Merle 23,000 BCE Altamira 12,500 BCE

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NEOLITHIC PERIOD 9000 – 1200 BCE

Organized system of agriculture appears

Domesticated animals Permanent settlements, small villages Skara Brae in Northern Scotland Structures have post and lintel

doorways Megalithic stone ceremonial sites

(Stonehenge) Bronze and Iron utilitarian objects and

art Carvings, ceramics, sculpture, rock

paintings