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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.8000-4000 bcea.d. = c.e. Algeria, N. Africa 4000 bcerelief N. Austrailia, Aboriginal -incise (75,000? Paleolithic) Shamanism Neolithic c. 6000-2000 bce Malta c. 3000 bce Carnac c. 4000 bce Stonehenge c. 2700-1500 bce
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PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE
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Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa
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Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE
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European Cave Sites
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Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s 2,500-17000 bce
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Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, 25000-17000 bce *Diverse techniques *Diverse animals
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Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’s Geometric lines, finger tracings
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Auks, jellyfish, horses Cosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce
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Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bce First discovered 1879
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Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE
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“The Well Scene” Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE
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Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume
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trois frères
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“Woman of Willendorf” (why not Venus?) 25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½
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c. 35, 000 bce Cave in sw Germany Oldest human figure Discovered 2008
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France, Czech Republic
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Mammoth ivory
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Horse, 30,000 bce
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Spear Throwers
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Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce
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Engraved bison, rock & clay bison
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Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce
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Aboriginal Rock Art Kangaroo & Lightening Man, Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present
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Lightening Man top Right Barrginj, his Wife, top left Spirit women, right Arnhem Land, N. Australia 75,000-present
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Turtle, kangaroo
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Mesolithic c. 8000- 6000/4000 bce Saharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce
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Saharan Rock Painting (copy) Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce
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MENHIR Men=stone Hir= long (celitic ) NEOLITHIC 6000/4000-2000 bce “Megalithic” in Europe
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Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE
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DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction
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DOLMEN 4000-2000 bce
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Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves
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Malta & Gozon c. 2500 bce
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Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior
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Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce
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Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce
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STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE
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Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c. 2005 ce
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Henge or Cromlech
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Sarsens (outer circle)
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Heel stone?
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Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington state Concrete!
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