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Prehistoric Art Upper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCE Terms:

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:

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  1. 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

  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

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

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

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

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

  11. Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

  12. Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

  13. Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE

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

  15. Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume

  16. trois frères

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

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

  19. France, Czech Republic

  20. Mammoth ivory

  21. Horse, 30,000 bce

  22. Spear Throwers

  23. Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce

  24. Engraved bison, rock & clay bison

  25. Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce

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

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

  28. Turtle, kangaroo

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

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

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

  32. Carnac “Alignment” C. 4,000 BCE

  33. DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction

  34. DOLMEN 4000-2000 bce

  35. Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves

  36. Malta & Gozon c. 2500 bce

  37. Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior

  38. Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

  39. Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce

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

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