Waterworn pebble resembling a human face

Makapansgat, S. Africa

3 million BC

Reddish brown jasperite

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• 20 mi away from where pebble was likely found
• probably orig. found as is

Animal facing left

Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia

23,000 BC

Charcoal on stone

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Human with feline head

Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

30,000 - 28,000 BC

Ivory (carved and encised)

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Venus of Willendorf

Willendorf, Austria

28,000 - 25,000 BC

Limestone

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• woman = fertility (especially exaggerated boobs, pregnant belly, pubic triangle)

Woman holding a bison horn

Laussel, France

25,000 - 20,000 BC

Painted limestone

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Reclining woman

Le Magdelaine cave, France

12,000 BC

rock-cut relief

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Two bison (reliefs)

Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France

15,000 - 10,000 BC

Clay

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Bison with turned head

La Madeleine, France

12,000 BC

Reindeer horn

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Bison

Altamira cave, Spain

12,000 - 11,000 BC

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• 1st cave painting ever discovered
• different POVs - painted at different times?

Spotted horses and negative hand imprints

Peche-Merle, France

22,000 BC

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Hall of the Bulls

Lascaux, France

15,000-13,000

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• twisted perspective

Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses

Chauvet Cave, France

30,000 - 28,000 BC

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• no twisted perspective

Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison

Lascaux, France

15,000 - 13,000 BC

Stone Age - Paleolithic

• Poss 1st narrative?

Great stone tower

Jericho, Jordan River Valley

9,000 - 7,000 BC

Stone Age - Neolithic

Human skull with restored features

Jericho

7,000 - 6,000 BC

Features in plaster, painted, inlaid with shell

Stone Age - Neolithic

• monumental sculpture

Level VI

Catal Huyuk, Turkey

6,000 - 5,900 BC

Stone Age - Neolithic

Deer Hunt

Level III, Catal Huyuk, Turkey

5750 BC

Stone Age - Neolithic

• composite view
• painted on plaster

Landscape with volcanic eruption

Level VII, Catal Huyuk, Turkey

6150 BC

Stone Age - Neolithic

• 1st known landscape

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, England

2550 - 1600 BC

Stone Age - Neolithic