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Prehistoric ArtUpper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCE Terms:Altamira, Spain 12,000 BCE radio carbon datingLascaux, France “ menhirNEW: alignmentsCosquer 17,000 bce dolmenChauvet “ cromlechWoman of Willendorf c. 22,000 bce c.= circa

b.c. = b.c.e.Mesolithic c.8000-4000 bce a.d. = c.e.Algeria, N. Africa 4000 bce reliefN. Austrailia, Aboriginal - incise

(75,000? Paleolithic) ShamanismNeolithic c. 6000-2000 bceMalta c. 3000 bceCarnac c. 4000 bceStonehenge c. 2700-1500 bce

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PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE

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Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa

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Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE

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European Cave Sites

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Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s2,500-17000 bce

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Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, 25000-17000 bce

*Diverse techniques *Diverse animals

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Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’sGeometric lines, finger tracings

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Auks, jellyfish, horsesCosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce

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Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bceFirst discovered 1879

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Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

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Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

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Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

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“The Well Scene” Lascaux Cave,

15,000 BCE

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LascauxNiaux,

Font de Gaume

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trois frères

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“Woman of Willendorf”(why not Venus?)

25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½

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c. 35, 000 bceCave in sw GermanyOldest human figure

Discovered 2008

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France, Czech Republic

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Mammoth ivory

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Horse, 30,000 bce

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Spear Throwers

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Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce

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Engraved bison, rock & clay bison

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PaleolithicMammoth bone house

Ukraine 16,000 bce

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Aboriginal Rock ArtKangaroo & Lightening Man,

Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present

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Lightening Man top RightBarrginj, his Wife, top left

Spirit women, rightArnhem Land, N. Australia

75,000-present

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Turtle, kangaroo

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Mesolithic c. 8000- 6000/4000 bceSaharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce

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Saharan Rock Painting (copy)

Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce

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MENHIRMen=stoneHir= long

(celitic)

NEOLITHIC 6000/4000-2000

bce

“Megalithic” in Europe

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Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE

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DOLMEN, 4000 bce

Post & lintel construction

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DOLMEN4000-2000 bce

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Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves

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Malta & Gozonc. 2500 bce

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Temple Gjantia, on Gozo

Tri-lobed interior

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Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

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Tarxien Temple, Malta

2500 bce

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Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone

Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

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STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE

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STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE

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Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c. 2005 ce

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Henge or Cromlech

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Sarsens (outer circle)

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Heel stone?

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Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington stateConcrete!


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