PREHISTORIC ART

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

Artist: n/a Title: Prehistoric Europe Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: n/a Source/Museum: n/a

PALEOLITHIC ART 40,000 – 8,000 BCE

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

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

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

NEGATIVE IMAGES POSITIVE IMAGES

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

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

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

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

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

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NEOLITHIC ART 8,000 – 1,500 BCE

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

Chatal Huyuk 6500-5500 BCE

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

Trilithons Blue stones Heel stone http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/

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

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Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt, 1974, Utah

Car Henge Jim Reinders, 1987, Nebraska