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Prehistoric Art Upper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCE Terms: Altamira, Spain 12,000 BCE radio carbon dating Lascaux, France “ menhir NEW: alignments Cosquer 17,000 bce dolmen Chauvet “ cromlech Woman of Willendorf c. 22,000 bce c.= circa b.c. = b.c.e.
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Prehistoric Art Upper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCE Terms: Altamira, Spain 12,000 BCE radio carbon dating Lascaux, France “ menhir NEW: alignments Cosquer 17,000 bce dolmen Chauvet “ cromlech Woman of Willendorf c. 22,000 bce c.= circa b.c. = b.c.e. Mesolithic c.8000-4000 bce a.d. = c.e. Algeria, N. Africa 4000 bce relief 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
Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990’s 2,500-17000 bce
Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, 25000-17000 bce *Diverse techniques *Diverse animals
Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990’s Geometric lines, finger tracings
Auks, jellyfish, horses Cosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce
Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bce First discovered 1879
Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume
“Woman of Willendorf” (why not Venus?) 25,000 bce - limestone 4 ½
c. 35, 000 bce Cave in sw Germany Oldest human figure Discovered 2008
Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce
Aboriginal Rock Art Kangaroo & Lightening Man, Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present
Lightening Man top Right Barrginj, his Wife, top left Spirit women, right Arnhem Land, N. Australia 75,000-present
Mesolithic c. 8000- 6000/4000 bce Saharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce
Saharan Rock Painting (copy) Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce
NEOLITHIC 6000/4000-2000 bce “Megalithic” in Europe MENHIR Men=stone Hir= long (celitic)
DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction
DOLMEN 4000-2000 bce
Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves
Malta & Gozon c. 2500 bce
Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior
Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce