1. Global Prehistory 30,000 – 500 BCE

2. Enduring Understandings  Human expression existed across the globe before written record.  Concern with natural world and humans’ place within.  Occurred on different continents with Africa and Asia preceding and influencing other areas as population spread.  Art historians’ knowledge of global prehistory has developed through interdisciplinary collaboration.

3. Venus of Willendorf  28,000-25,000BCE  Limestone rubbed w/red Ochre  Willendorf, Austria  https://www.khanac ademy.org/humaniti es/prehistoric- art/paleolithic- art/v/nude-woman- venus-of-willendorf- c-28-000-25-000-b-c- e https://www.khanac ademy.org/humaniti es/prehistoric- art/paleolithic- art/v/nude-woman- venus-of-willendorf- c-28-000-25-000-b-c- e

4. Apollo 11 stones  25,500-25,300 BCE  Charcoal on stone  Found in Namibia

5. Great Hall of the Bulls  Lascaux, France  15,000 – 13,000 BCE  Rock Painting via Charcoal, iron ore, plants  Mostly animal paintings Possible Function of Paintings?

6. Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine  Central Mexico  14,000 – 7,000 BCE  Bone, worked into the image of a dog or wolf.  Natural form used to represent another  Sacrum “second skull”  Discovered in 1870

7. Running Horned Woman  Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria  6000-4000 BCE  Pigment on rock  Depicts wildlife, livestock & humans

8. Beaker with ibex motifs  4200 – 3500 BCE  Susa, Iran  Painted Terra Cotta  Use of potters wheel  Oversized horns abstract stylized motif  Centralized clan symbol of family ownership

9. Anthropomorphic Stele  4 th Millennium BCE  Arabian Peninsula  Sandstone  Religious or Burial Function  Resembles human form, but not itself human (Anthropomorphic)

10. Jade Cong  Liangzhu, China  3300-2200 BCE  Jades appear in burials of high ranking peoples  Buried w/dead in rituals  Linked Jade w/ durability, beauty  Circular hole cut into square-like cross-section

11. Stonehenge  2500-1600 BCE  Wiltshire, UK  Sandstone  Post & Lintel using Mortise & Tenon system of construction  Megaliths – stone of great size

12. The Ambum Stone  1500 BCE  Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea  Greywacke stone  Considered Sacred  Animal form or masked human?  Possibly pestle function

13. Tiatilco female figurine  1200-900 BCE  Central Mexico  Ceramic  Theory: possibly showing congenital defects

14. Terra Cottsa fragment  1000 BCE  Solomon Islands, Reef Islands  Terra Cotta  Lapita Peoples : Stamped patterns of dots, circles & hatching