1. Global Pre-History

2. 1. Apollo 11 stones. Namibia. c. 25,500– 25,300 B.C.E. Charcoal on stone.

3. 2. Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15,000–13,000 B.C.E. Rock painting. faculty.evansville.edu/.../sum04/art105-12.html TWISTED PERSPECTIVE – combination of frontal and side view. Frontal Side view (profile)

4. 4 Pebble resembling a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa, ca. 3,000,000 BCE. Reddish brown jasperite, approx. 2 3/8” wide.

5. Venus of Willendorf Subtractive Sculpture

6. 3. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico 14,000-7000 BCE Bone

7. 4. Running horned woman. Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6000–4000 B.C.E. Pigment on rock. Earliest example of rock art Dotted marks indicate body paint Featureless face White parallel patterns represent flowing raffia decor Horns shown in twisted perspective or composite are part of ceremonial attire

8. 5. Beaker with ibex motifs. Susa, Iran. 4200-3500 BCE. Painted terra cotta Beaker with Ibex Motifs

9. 7. Jade cong Liangzhu, China 3300-2200 BCE Carved jade Jade Cong

10. 6. Anthropormorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium BCE Sandstone.

11. 10. Tlatilco Female figure, 1200–900 B.C. Ceramic with traces of pigment

12. 9. The Ambum Stone. Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. c. 1500 B.C.E. Greywacke. Prehistoric zoomorphic figure, possibly representing the embryo of a long- beaked echidna (spiny anteater) 3500 years ago

13. 11. Terra cotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands. 1000 B.C.E. Terra cotta (incised).

14. Level VI Catal Hoyuk, Turkey COMPOSITE RECONSTRUCTION DRAWING OF A SHRINE ROOM

15. 8. Stonehenge. Wiltshire, UK. Neolithic Europe. c. 2500–1600 B.C.E. Sandstone.

16. Megaliths Cromlech or henge Post and Lintel Lintel Post Trilithon

17. Stonehenge Significant astronomical alignments at Stonehenge