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Prehistoric period timeline

40,000 – 8,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic period 10,000 BCE Present interglacial period begins 9,000 – 4,000 BCE Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap 6,500 – 1200 BCE Neolithic Period – Farming in Europe 2300 -800 BCE Bronze Age in Europe

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Prehistoric period timeline

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  1. 40,000 – 8,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic period • 10,000 BCE Present interglacial period begins • 9,000 – 4,000 BCE Paleolithic – Neolithic overlap • 6,500 – 1200 BCE Neolithic Period – Farming in Europe • 2300 -800 BCE Bronze Age in Europe • 1000 – 50 BCE Proto-historic Iron Age in Europe Prehistoric period timeline

  2. Paleolithic Art consists of: • Small statuary carvings of ivory, bone, stone • Small figurines of clay • Incising • Cave paintings and drawings • Sculpture created from rocks inside caves Paleolithic Art

  3. No extant permanent architecture No agriculture or domesticated animals People were nomadic, no permanent settlements or villages Dwellings were temporary and often made of mud and wattle Paleolithic Life

  4. Woman of Willendorf 22,000 BCE Austria Lion-Human (male) 30,000 BCE Germany Woman from Brassenpouy 30,000 BCE France Paleolithic Figurine Examples:

  5. Lascaux 15,000 BCE Chauvet 30,000 BCE Pech-Merle 23,000 BCE Altamira 12,500 BCE Some Cave Painting sites:

  6. Organized system of agriculture appears Domesticated animals Permanent settlements, small villages Skara Brae in Northern Scotland Structures have post and lintel doorways Megalithic stone ceremonial sites (Stonehenge) Bronze and Iron utilitarian objects and art Carvings, ceramics, sculpture, rock paintings Neolithic Period 9000 – 1200 BCE

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