PREHISTORIC ART CHRONOLOGY Prehistoric before writing Paleolithic Period

PREHISTORIC ART

CHRONOLOGY • Prehistoric = before writing • Paleolithic Period (Paleo =old, lithos = stone) (Ice Age/Old Stone Age) c. 40, 000 – 8, 000 BCE Lower, Middle, Upper (most recent) – based on relative position of objects found in the layers of excavation • Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age) c. 10, 000 – 4, 500 BCE (transitional) • Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) c. 8, 000 – 1, 500 BCE beginning and duration vary by location as glaciers retreat Near East, Turkey, Egypt c. 7, 000 – 3, 500 BCE Europe c. 4, 500 – 1, 500 BCE

PALEOLITHIC ART 40, 000 – 8, 000 BCE

Title: Human with Feline Head Date: c. 30, 000– 26, 000 BCE Medium: Mammoth ivory Size: height 11⅝" (29. 6 cm) Source/Museum: Hohlenstein. Stadel, Germany / Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

Title: Woman from Willendorf Date: c. 28, 000 – 24, 000 BCE Medium: Limestone Size: height 4⅜" (11 cm) Source/Museum: Austria. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

Title: Two Bison Date: c. 15, 000 – 10, 000 BCE Medium: Unbaked clay Size: length 25" ( 63. 5 cm) and 24" (60. 9 cm) Source/Museum: Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France

NEGATIVE IMAGES POSITIVE IMAGES

Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands Date: Horses 25, 000– 24, 000 BCE; hands c 15, 000 BCE Medium: Paint on limestone Size: individual horses are over 5' (1. 5 m) in length. Source/Museum: Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France

Title: Hall of Bulls Date: c. 15, 000 BCE Medium: Paint on limestone Size: length of the largest auroch (bull) 18' (5. 50 m) Source/Museum: Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France

Title: Bison Medium: Paint on limestone Size: length approx. 8'3" (2. 5 m) Date: c. 12, 500 BCE Source/Museum: Ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain

Title: Lamp with Ibex Design Medium: Engraved stone Date: c. 15, 000– 13, 000 BCE Source/Museum: La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne, France

ABORIGINAL PREHISTORIC ART Title: Mimis and Kangaroo Medium: Red and yellow ocher and white pipe clay Date: Older painting 16, 000– 7000 BCE Source/Museum: Prehistoric rock art, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, Australia

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NEOLITHIC ART 8, 000 – 1, 500 BCE

Jericho Human Skull Great Stone Tower 6, 000 -5, 500 BCE

Chatal Huyuk 6500 -5500 BCE

Title: Tomb interior with corbeling and engraved stones Medium: n/a Size: n/a Date: c. 3000– 2500 BCE Source/Museum: New Grange, Ireland

Trilithons Blue stones Heel stone http: //www. stonehenge. co. uk/

Title: Stonehenge Date: c. 2750– 1500 BCE Source/Museum: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England

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Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt, 1974, Utah

Car Henge Jim Reinders, 1987, Nebraska