Paleolithic Art When does “history” begin? How do names have power? Labels both help define, yet also exclude.

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Paleolithic Art When does “history” begin? How do names have power? Labels both help define, yet also exclude

Spotted Horses and Painted Hands, Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France Horses: 25,000 BCE Hands: 15,000 BCE Paint on limestone, horses 5’

Woman of Willendorf

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux

Neolithic Art

Corbelled Arch/Vault

Serpent Mound, c.1000, Adams County, Ohio The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the coils also may point to the winter solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise

Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels