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1 THE ART OF PREHISTORY Paleolithic Period Lower (beginning 1,500,000 BC ) Middle (100,000-200,000 BCE ) Upper (50,000 BC☻– 8,000 BC) Mesolithic (8,000- 5,000 BC) Neolithic (5,000-2,000 BC) ☻earliest art dates to c. 30,000 BCE Sculpture Architecture façade plan post and lintel tomb temple monolith megalith/megalith menhir dolmen cromlech burial mound trilobe Cave painting Cosquer, France Chauvet, France Pech-Merle, France Trois-Frères cave, France Lascaux, France Altamira cave, Spain shaman pigment Sculpture two dimensional (2-D) vs. three dimensional (3-D) monumental relief, high, low, bas freestanding in-the-round incision modeled carved fertility figure/fetish pigment corbelled vault pigment superimposition Stonehenge (c. 2800-1500 BC) Salisbury Plain, England cromlech trilithon mortice and tenon Aubrey holes heel stone sarcen stone bluestone altar stone A.D. or C.E. B.C. or B.C.E c. = circa = approximately Chronology ☻earliest art dates to c. 30,000 BCE 0 100 200 100 BCE 200 BCE 2 nd Century BCE 2 nd Century
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THE ART OF PREHISTORY
Paleolithic PeriodLower (beginning 1,500,000 BC )
Middle (100,000-200,000 BCE )
Upper (50,000 BC☻– 8,000 BC)
Mesolithic (8,000- 5,000 BC)
Neolithic (5,000-2,000 BC)
☻earliest art dates to c. 30,000 BCE
Sculpture
Architecturefaçadeplanpost and linteltombtemplemonolithmegalith/megalithmenhirdolmencromlechburial mound trilobe
Cave paintingCosquer, FranceChauvet, FrancePech-Merle, FranceTrois-Frères cave, FranceLascaux, FranceAltamira cave, Spain
shamanpigmentSculpture
two dimensional (2-D) vs. three dimensional (3-D)monumentalrelief, high, low, basfreestanding in-the-round incisionmodeledcarved fertility figure/fetishpigment
corbelled vaultpigmentsuperimposition
Stonehenge (c. 2800-1500 BC) Salisbury Plain, Englandcromlechtrilithonmortice and tenonAubrey holesheel stonesarcen stonebluestonealtar stone
A.D. or C.E.B.C. or B.C.E
c. = circa = approximately
Chronology
☻earliest art dates to c. 30,000 BCE
0 100 200100 BCE200 BCE
2nd Century BCE 2nd Century
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Venus of Willendorf
Willendorf, Austria
c. 25, 000 - 21,000 BCE
Limestone
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Venus of Laussel
Laussel, Dordogne, France
c. 25,000 – 23,000 BCE
Limestone
Venus Figure
Italy
c. 25,000 – BCE
stone
Bison with a turned head
La Madeleine, Tarn, France
c. 11, 000 – 9000 BCE
Reindeer horn
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Bison
Tuc d’Audoubert cave, Ariege, Dordogne, France
c. 13,000 – 8000 BCE
Unbaked clay
“Lion Panel”
Chauvet cave, Ardeche Valley, France
c. 25,000 – 17, 000 BCE
Black pigment on limestone wall
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Handprints
Pech-Merle, Dordogne, France
c. 16, 000 BC
Pigment on limestone
Shaman
Trois-Freres cave,
Ariege, Dordogne, France
c. 13,000 – 11, 000 BC
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Hall of Running Bulls
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
c. 15,000 – 13,000 BCE
Pigment on limestone rock
“Chinese Horse”
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
c. 15,000 – 13,000 BCE
Pigment on limestone rock
Detail with geometric symbols
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
c. 15,000 – 13,000 BCE
Pigment on limestone rock
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“Well Scene”
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
c. 15,000 – 13,000 BCE
Pigment on limestone rock
Bison Mural
Altamira cave, Spain
c. 12,000 BC
Black manganese, red ochre
Standing Bison
Altamira Cave, Spain
c. 12,000 BCE
Black manganese and red ochre on limestone
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Saharan rock painting
Tassili, Algeria
Cattle or Pastoralist period
5th-4th millennium BCE
Temple at Ggantija, Gozo, Malta
Before 3000 BCE
“Mother Goddess”
Tarxien, Malta
Before 2500 BC
Stone fragment
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Alignment of menhirs
Carnac, Brittany, France
c. 4000 BC
Stone
TRILITHON
Post-and-Lintel Construction
Lintel
Post Post
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Dolmen
Carnac, Brittany, France
c. 4000 BCE
Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
c. 2800-1500 BCE
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Stonehenge
Trilithon with post and lintel construction
