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Prehistoric Art Upper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCETerms: Altamira, Spain 12,000 BCEradio carbon dating Lascaux, France“menhir NEW:alignments Cosquer 17,000 bcedolmen Chauvet “cromlech Woman of Willendorf c. 22,000 bcec.= circa b.c. = b.c.e. Mesolithic c bcea.d. = c.e. Algeria, N. Africa 4000 bcerelief N. Austrailia, Aboriginal -incise (75,000? Paleolithic) Shamanism Neolithic c bce Malta c bce Carnac c bce Stonehenge c bce

PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE

Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa

Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE

European Cave Sites

Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s 2, bce

Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, bce *Diverse techniques *Diverse animals

Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’s Geometric lines, finger tracings

Auks, jellyfish, horses Cosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce

Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bce First discovered 1879

Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

“The Well Scene” Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume

trois frères

“Woman of Willendorf” (why not Venus?) 25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½

c. 35, 000 bce Cave in sw Germany Oldest 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

Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce

Aboriginal Rock Art Kangaroo & Lightening Man, Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present

Lightening Man top Right Barrginj, his Wife, top left Spirit women, right Arnhem Land, N. Australia 75,000-present

Turtle, kangaroo

Mesolithic c /4000 bce Saharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce

Saharan Rock Painting (copy) Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce

MENHIR Men=stone Hir= long (celitic ) NEOLITHIC 6000/ bce “Megalithic” in Europe

Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE

DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction

DOLMEN bce

Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves

Malta & Gozon c bce

Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior

Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

STONEHENGE BCE

Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c ce

Henge or Cromlech

Sarsens (outer circle)

Heel stone?

Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington state Concrete!