ROCK PAINTING

Schematic

Symbols, people, hunting scenes, dances

Religious meaning.

Çatalhöyük (Turkey)

POTTERYFirst with geometrical inscriptions,

and later also painted

MEGALITHIC ART

Religious meaning worshipping the sun, celebrate solstices and equinoxes, tombs, etc. Mega Great, large

Lithos Stone

MENHIRBig stone standing vertically on the floor.

ALIGNMENTMenhirs arranged in lines

CROMLECHMenhirs arranged in circles

STONEHENGESalisbury

(United Kingdom)

3rd millennium BCE

Solar cults Summer solstice

DOLMENSeveral vertical stones holding a flat horizontal stone