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Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age

Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age. For art historians to declare a piece an “artwork,” it must have been modified by human intervention beyond mere selection. “Waterworn pebble resembling a human face” Makapansget, South Africa 3,000,000 BC

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Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age

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  1. Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age

  2. For art historians to declare a piece an “artwork,” it must have been modified by human intervention beyond mere selection.

  3. “Waterworn pebble resembling a human face” Makapansget, South Africa 3,000,000 BC Reddish brown jasperite 2 3/8” wide

  4. “Animal Facing Left” Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia 23,000 BC Charcoal on Stone 5” x 4 1/4”

  5. “Venus of Willendorf” Willendorf, Austria 28,000 - 25,000 BC Limestone 4 1/2 “ high

  6. “Two Bison” Cave at Le Tuc d’Audoubert, Ariege, France, 15,000-10,000 BC High Relief, Clay, each figure @ 2” long

  7. “Bison With Turned Head” La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, 12,000 BC Fragmentary Spearthrower, Reindeer Horn, 4” long, Bas-relief

  8. “Bison” (detail of a painted ceiling) Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain 12,000 - 11,000 BC (discovered 1879) Each Bison @ 5’ long

  9. “Hall of the Bulls” (left wall), Lascaux, Dordogne, France, 15,000 - 13,000 BC Largest Bull @ 11’ 6” long

  10. “Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses,” Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’ArcArdeche, France, 30,000 - 28,000 BC or 15,00 - 13,000 BC

  11. Great stone tower built into the settlement wall, Jericho 8000-7000 BC

  12. Ruins of Jericho’s walls today,

  13. Human Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan 6750-6250 BC 3’ 5 3/8” high

  14. Schematic reconstruction drawing of a section of Level VI, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey 6000 - 5900 BC

  15. Deer Hunt, detail of a wall painting from Level III, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey 5750 BC

  16. Landscape with Volcanic Eruption Catal Hoyuk, Turkey 6150 BC (Considered by many to be the world’s first landscape)

  17. “Stonehenge” Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, 2550 -1600 BC Circle is 97’ in diameter, trilithons are @ 24’ high

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