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Paleolithic Art
3,000,000-9000 BCE
Prehistoric Europe And The Near East Map
Lion man,from Hohlenstein, Germany ca. 30,000-28,000 BCE. Mammoth ivory, 11 5/8″ high. Ulcer Museum, Ulm.
Venus of Willendorf (nude woman), from Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE. Limestone, 4 1/4″ high. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Woman holding a bison horn, from Laussel, France, ca. 25,000-20,000 BCE. Painted limestone, 1’6″ high. Musée d’Aquitane, Bordeaux
Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France, ca. 15,000-10,000 BCE. Clay, right bison 2 7/8″ long.′
Bison licking its flank, fragmentary spear-thrower, from La Madeleine, France, ca. 12,000 BCE. Reindeer horn, 4 1/8″ ′
long. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Caves at Altamira ca. 35,000 to 11,000 BC
Bison Detail of a painted ceiling in the cave Altamira, Spain, ca.13,000-11,000 BCE standing Bison 5’ 2 ½” long.
Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 23,000-22,000 BCE. 11’2″
long.
Hall of the Bulls - Lascaux, Dordogne, France ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE - Cave Painting - Largest Bull Approx. 138" long
Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000 B.C.)
Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France, ca. 30,000-28,000 or ca.15,000-
13,000 BCE. Right rhinoceros 3’4″ long.
Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000-14,000
BCE. Bison 3 41/2″ long.′
Aerial view of Stonehenge (looking northwest), Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, ca. 2550-1600 BCE. Circle 97 in diameter; ′
trilithons 24 high.′