1. PREHISTORIC ART

2. CHRONOLOGY Prehistoric = before writing
Paleolithic Period (Paleo =old, lithos = stone) (Ice Age/Old Stone Age) c. 40,000 – 8,000 BCE
Lower, Middle, Upper (most recent) – based on relative position of objects found in the layers of excavation
Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age) c. 10,000 – 4,500 BCE (transitional)
Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) c. 8,000 – 1,500 BCE
beginning and duration vary by location as glaciers retreat
Near East, Turkey, Egypt c. 7,000 – 3,500 BCE
Europe c. 4,500 – 1,500 BCE

3. Artist: n/a
Title: Prehistoric Europe
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Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a

4. PALEOLITHIC ART 40,000 – 8,000 BCE

5. Title: Human with Feline Head
Date: c. 30,000–26,000 BCE
Medium: Mammoth ivory
Size: height 11⅝" (29.6 cm)
Source/Museum: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany / Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

6. Title: Woman from Willendorf
Date: c. 28,000 – 24,000 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 4⅜" (11 cm)
Source/Museum: Austria. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

7. Title: Two Bison Date: c
Title: Two Bison Date: c. 15,000 – 10,000 BCE Medium: Unbaked clay Size: length 25" ( 63.5 cm) and 24" (60.9 cm) Source/Museum: Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France

8. NEGATIVE IMAGES
POSITIVE IMAGES

9. Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands
Date: Horses 25,000–24,000 BCE; hands c 15,000 BCE
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: individual horses are over 5' (1.5 m) in length.
Source/Museum: Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France

10. Title: Hall of Bulls
Date: c. 15,000 BCE
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: length of the largest auroch (bull) 18' (5.50 m)
Source/Museum: Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France

11. Title: Bison
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: length approx. 8'3" (2.5 m)
Date: c. 12,500 BCE
Source/Museum: Ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain

12. Title: Lamp with Ibex Design
Medium: Engraved stone
Date: c. 15,000–13,000 BCE
Source/Museum: La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne, France

13. ABORIGINAL PREHISTORIC ART
Title: Mimis and Kangaroo
Medium: Red and yellow ocher and white pipe clay
Date: Older painting 16,000–7000 BCE
Source/Museum: Prehistoric rock art, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, Australia

14. wandjina

15. NEOLITHIC ART 8,000 – 1,500 BCE

17. Jericho
Human Skull
6,000-5,500 BCE
Great Stone Tower

18. Chatal Huyuk BCE

20. Title: Tomb interior with corbeling and engraved stones
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 3000–2500 BCE
Source/Museum: New Grange, Ireland

22. Trilithons
Blue stones
Heel stone

23. Source/Museum: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England
Title: Stonehenge
Date: c. 2750–1500 BCE
Source/Museum: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England
Artist: n/a
Title: Stonehenge
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 2750–1500 BCE
Source/Museum: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England

24. Tenon

25. Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt, 1974, Utah

26. Car Henge Jim Reinders, 1987, Nebraska