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
PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE
Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa
Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE
European Cave Sites
Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s2,500-17000 bce
Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, 25000-17000 bce
*Diverse techniques *Diverse animals
Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’sGeometric lines, finger tracings
Auks, jellyfish, horsesCosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce
Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bceFirst discovered 1879
Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE
Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE
Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE
“The Well Scene” Lascaux Cave,
15,000 BCE
LascauxNiaux,
Font de Gaume
trois frères
“Woman of Willendorf”(why not Venus?)
25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½
c. 35, 000 bceCave in sw GermanyOldest human figure
Discovered 2008
France, Czech Republic
Mammoth ivory
Horse, 30,000 bce
Spear Throwers
Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce
Engraved bison, rock & clay bison
PaleolithicMammoth bone house
Ukraine 16,000 bce
Aboriginal Rock ArtKangaroo & Lightening Man,
Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present
Lightening Man top RightBarrginj, his Wife, top left
Spirit women, rightArnhem Land, N. Australia
75,000-present
Turtle, kangaroo
Mesolithic c. 8000- 6000/4000 bceSaharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce
Saharan Rock Painting (copy)
Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce
MENHIRMen=stoneHir= long
(celitic)
NEOLITHIC 6000/4000-2000
bce
“Megalithic” in Europe
Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE
DOLMEN, 4000 bce
Post & lintel construction
DOLMEN4000-2000 bce
Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves
Malta & Gozonc. 2500 bce
Temple Gjantia, on Gozo
Tri-lobed interior
Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce
Tarxien Temple, Malta
2500 bce
Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone
Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce
STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE
STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE
Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c. 2005 ce
Henge or Cromlech
Sarsens (outer circle)
Heel stone?
Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington stateConcrete!