Woman From Willendorf

24,000BCE

(Paleolithic Era)

Bonus: Made from Limestone

Originally colored with red ocher

Just under five inches tall

Symbolizes fertility

Horses and Hands

Pech-Merle Cave

25,000-15,000 BCE

(Paleolithic Era)

Bonus: Paint on Limestone

Lenth of horse: Five feet

the hands were later additions

The shape of the horse follows the shape of the rock it is on

Lion Human

Hohlenstein, Germany

30,000- 26,000 BCE

Bonus: Carved from mamoth ivory

new development in art, not creating from sight, but rather the imagination.

Probable that they viewed animals and humans as a common group inhabiting the world

Wall painting with horses, aurochs, and rhinoceroses

32,000-30,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Paint on limestone

in the same cave a childsfoot prints were imprinted in soft clay.

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Caves15,000 BC

15,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Paint on limestone

Drawn from a composite view

new developmet: telling a story

Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain

12,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Paint on limestone (ocher)

First piece to be discovered from the Upprer Paleolithic era

Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert

13,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Unbaked clay

High Relief

Many foot prints found in soft clay here. (suggests many group rites and rituals took place here)

A House in Çatalhöyük

7400-6200 BCE

Neolithic

Men Taunting a Deer 

(detail of a wall painting from Çatalhöyük, Turkey)

6000 BCE

Neolithic

Bonus:Museum of Anatolian Civilization, Ankara, Turkey

Deer has erect penis

symbolism for masculinity

Post-and-Lintel and Corbel Construction

Tomb interior with engraved stones

3000-2500 BCE

Neolithic

Bonus:carvings marked out by strings or compases

Markings have religous meaning (supposedly cause people to have mental images or hallucinations)

Diagram of Stonehenge

Stonehenge

3000-1500 BCE

Neolithic

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

Bonus: served as a cremation burrial, and ritual site.