1. 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

2. PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE

3. Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa

4. Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE

5. European Cave Sites

6. Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s 2,500-17000 bce

8. Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, 25000-17000 bce *Diverse techniques *Diverse animals

9. Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’s Geometric lines, finger tracings

10. Auks, jellyfish, horses Cosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce

11. Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bce First discovered 1879

13. Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

21. “The Well Scene” Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

23. Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume

24. trois frères

25. “Woman of Willendorf” (why not Venus?) 25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½

26. c. 35, 000 bce Cave in sw Germany Oldest human figure Discovered 2008

27. France, Czech Republic

28. Mammoth ivory

29. Horse, 30,000 bce

30. Spear Throwers

31. Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce

32. Engraved bison, rock & clay bison

33. Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce

34. Aboriginal Rock Art Kangaroo & Lightening Man, Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present

35. Lightening Man top Right Barrginj, his Wife, top left Spirit women, right Arnhem Land, N. Australia 75,000-present

36. Turtle, kangaroo

37. Mesolithic c. 8000- 6000/4000 bce Saharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce

38. Saharan Rock Painting (copy) Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce

39. MENHIR Men=stone Hir= long (celitic ) NEOLITHIC 6000/4000-2000 bce “Megalithic” in Europe

40. Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE

43. DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction

44. DOLMEN 4000-2000 bce

45. Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves

46. Malta & Gozon c. 2500 bce

47. Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior

48. Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

50. Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

51. STONEHENGE 2750-1500 BCE

53. Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c. 2005 ce

54. Henge or Cromlech

58. Sarsens (outer circle)

59. Heel stone?

61. Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington state Concrete!