Chapter 1 Prehistoric Art Flashcards
Spotted Horses and Human Hands
Pech-Merle Cave (France)
Paleolithic
Horses: 25,000-34,000 BCE
Hands: 15,000 BCE
Paint on Limestone
Rainbow Serpent Rock
Western Arnhem (Australia)
6,000 BCE
Neolithic
Paleolithic Hand-Axe
Isimila Korongo (Tanzania)
Paleolithic
60,000 BCE
Stone
Decorated Ocher
Blombos Cave (South Africa)
77,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Reconstruction Drawing of Mammoth-Bone Houses
Ukraine
16,000-10,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Lion-Human
Hohlenstein-Stadel (Germany)
40,000-35,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Mammoth Ivory
Woman from Willendorf
Austria
24,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Limestone
Woman from Dolni Vestonice
Moravia (Czech Republic)
23,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Fired Clay
Woman from Brassempouy
Grotte du Pape (France)
30,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Ivory
Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs
Chauvert Cave (France)
32,000-30,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Paint on Limestone
Hall of Bulls
Lascaux Cave (France)
15,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Paint on Limestone
Bird-Headed Man with Bison
Lascaux Cave (France)
15,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Paint on Limestone
Bison
Altamira (Spain)
12,500 BCE
Paleolithic
Paint on Limestone
Bison
Le Tuc d’Audoubert (France)
13,000 BCE
Paleolithic
Unbaked Clay
Reconstruction Drawing of Lepenski Vir House/Shrine
Serbia
6,300-5,500 BCE
Neolithic
Human-Fish Sculpture
Lepenski Vir (Spain)
6,300-5,500 BCE
Neolithic
Reconstruction Drawing of a House in Catalhoyuk
Catalhoyuk (Turkey)
7,400-6,200 BCE
Neolithic
Men Taunting a Deer
Catalhoyuk (Turkey)
6,000 BCE
Neolithic
Reconstruction Drawing of a Sesklo Stone-Foundation House
Sesklo (Greece)
6,500 BCE
Neolithic
Tomb Interior with Corbeling and Engraved Stones
Newgrange (Ireland)
3,000-2,500 BCE
Neolithic
Reconstruction Drawing from Stonehenge from the Air
Salisbury Plain (Engalnd)
3,000-1,500 BCE
Neolithic
Stonehenge from the Ground
Salisbury Plain (England)
3,000-1,500 BCE
Neolithic
Plan of Stonehenge and Its Surrounding Settlements
Reconstruction Drawing of Durrington Walls
near Stonehenge (England)
2,600 BCE
Neolithic
Early Pottery from Japan’s Jomon Culture
Japan
7,000 BCe
Neolithic
Early Pottery from the Franchthi Cave, Greece
Franchthi Cave (Greece)
6,500 BCE
Neolithic
Figures of a Woman and a Man
Cernvoda (Romania)
4,500 BCE
Neolithic
Ceramic
Human Figure
Ain Ghazal (Jordan)
6,500 BCE
Neolithic
Fired lime plaster with cowrie shell, bitumen, and paint
Gold-Adorned Face Mask
Varna (Bulgaria)
3,800 BCE
Neolithic
Terra cotta and gold
Gold Scepters
Varna (Bulgaria)
3,800 BCE
Neolithic
Gold
Rock Art: Boat and Sea Battle
Fossum (Sweden)
1,500-5,00 BCE
Bronze Age