Human with Feline Head

30,000 to 28,000 BCE.

Ivory

Venus of Willendorf

28,000-25,000 BCE

Emphasis on pubic triangle and breasts.

Venus of Hohle Fels

Approx. 35,000 BCE.

Limestone

Two Bison Reliefs in a Cave

15,000-10,000 BCE.

Additive Sculpture of Clay

Low Relief

Bison with turned head, fragmentary spear thrower

12,000 BCE

Reindeer horn.

Subtractive, low relief, sculpture

Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the Altamira cave in Spain

12,000-11,000 BCE.

Two pigments: charcoal, clay, binder=animal fat

Hall of Bulls

Lescauz, France

Ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE. 

Not just bison, other animals.

Several dots.

Very observant draw 3D on 2D

Great Stone Tower

Built into the settlement wall, Jericho

Ca. 7,000-8,000 BCE.

20ft tall, made out of stone and mortar

Schematic reconstruction drawing of Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 6,000-5,900 BCE.

Defense

Deer Hunt, detail of a wall painting

Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 5750 BCE.

What people wanted on wall

People

Landscape painting at Catal Hoyuk, Turkey

Ca. 6,150 Ce.

First landscape painting.

Birds eye view.

Volcano

Japan

Jomon Pottery

10,500-300 BCE.

Distuinguishable by chord lines and lack of base

Put into the ground

China

Yanshao Culture (Neolithic Chinese Culture)

4,000 BCE. Watered down clay, slip