1. The Creative Revolution Paleolithic Cave Art 35,000 BC – 14,000 BC
Western Europe
200+ sites
Famous sites:
Chauvet , France
Lascaux, France
Altamira, Spain

2. Chauvet Cave, France 32,000 B.C.

3. Carbon 14 dating of charcoal and animal bones established age of Cave Art sites.
Paint made out of charcoal , rocks and minerals mixed with animal fat.
Black made from charcoal or Black Hemalite
White made from chalk.
Yellow , red and brown made from Ocher

4. Why did Paleolithic Man make Cave Art?
The paintings are believed to have a religious purpose.
Religious leaders known as Shamans were painted at Les Trois Friers and Lascaux.
The paintings may have been visions the Shamans had during trances they entered into trying to contact the spirit world during religious ceremonies.
The animals they painted were the largest in their world and NOT their main sources of food.

5. Ice Age Southern Europe

6. Ice Age: 100,000 BC – 10,000 BC Ice Age (The earth was colder)

7. Muskox: Chauvet Cave

8. Horses: Chauvet cave

9. Cave Bear and Leopard Chauvet Cave

10. Cave Lions: Chauvet Cave

11. Wooly Rhino, Bison, Mammoth Chauvet Cave

12. Running Bison and Fighting Rhinos Chauvet Cave

13. Aurochs: Ancestor of all Cattle

14. Roufignac, France 22,000 B.C. Mammoths

15. Lascaux, France 17,000 B.C. Hall Of Bulls

16. Altamira, Spain 14,000 BC

17. European Bison

18. Altamira: High Point of Cave Art
Highly Detailed
Dramatic Action

19. “In 20,000 years, we have learned nothing!” Pablo Picasso

20. Why were the Cave Art sites abandoned Circa 14,000 B.C.?
Humans began building stone temples.
The archaeological dig at Gobekli Tepli in Turkey has unearthed stone structures filled with carvings of animals.
Gobekli Tepli has been dated to 11,000 B.C. The Neolithic Age had begun.

21. Saharan Rock Art 8,000 BC to 4,000 BC
The Saharan 8,000 BC
The Saharan was a Steppe (Savannah) in the Ice Age.
Saharan Desert AD

22. Neolithic Rock Art 8,000 BC- 2,000 BC People and domestic animals appear

23. Hippos: Tassili d’ Ajjer Saharan Desert

24. Elephant: Libya

25. Giraffes and Elephants Tassili d’ Ajjer

26. Herding Domestic Cattle Tassili d’ Ajjer

27. African villagers Tassili d’ Ajjer

28. Tassili d’ Ajjer: Villagers, Jellyfish, Domestic Goat, Man riding Camel

29. Cave of Swimmers, Egypt

30. Tassili d’ Ajjer: Herding Domestic Camels