Prehistoric Art Upper PaleoLithic c. 50,000-8,000 BCETerms: Altamira, Spain 12,000 BCEradio carbon dating Lascaux, Francemenhir NEW:alignments Cosquer 17,000 bcedolmen Chauvet cromlech Woman of Willendorf c. 22,000 bcec.= circa b.c. = b.c.e. Mesolithic c bcea.d. = c.e. Algeria, N. Africa 4000 bcerelief N. Austrailia, Aboriginal -incise (75,000? Paleolithic) Shamanism Neolithic c bce Malta c bce Carnac c bce Stonehenge c bce PALEOLITHIC ends circa 8,000 BCE Prehistoric Australia, Europe & Africa Peche Merle 12, 000 BCE European Cave Sites Chauvet Cave, discovered 1990s 2, bce Cave bear, top, Lion & rhinoceros, Chauvet, bce *Diverse techniques *Diverse animals Cosquer Cave, discovered 1990s Geometric lines, finger tracings Auks, jellyfish, horses Cosquer Cave, 2,500-17,000 bce Alta Mira Cave c. 12,000 bce First discovered 1879 Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE The Well Scene Lascaux Cave, 15,000 BCE Lascaux Niaux, Font de Gaume trois frres Woman of Willendorf (why not Venus?) 25,000 bce - limestone 4 c. 35, 000 bce Cave in sw Germany Oldest human figure Discovered 2008 France, Czech Republic Mammoth ivory Horse, 30,000 bce Spear Throwers Bison, horn, 11, 000 bce Engraved bison, rock & clay bison Paleolithic Mammoth bone house Ukraine 16,000 bce Aboriginal Rock Art Kangaroo & Lightening Man, Arnhem Land, N. Australia, 70-50,000-present Lightening Man top Right Barrginj, his Wife, top left Spirit women, right Arnhem Land, N. Australia 75,000-present Turtle, kangaroo Mesolithic c /4000 bce Saharan rock Paintings, Algeria, 5000 bce Saharan Rock Painting (copy) Tassili, Algeria, Africa 4,000 bce MENHIR Men=stone Hir= long (celitic ) NEOLITHIC 6000/ bce Megalithic in Europe Carnac Alignment C. 4,000 BCE DOLMEN, 4000 bce Post & lintel construction DOLMEN bce Mounds, Barrows, Passage Graves Malta & Gozon c bce Temple Gjantia, on Gozo Tri-lobed interior Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce Megalithic Mother Goddess, broken stone Tarxien Temple, Malta 2500 bce STONEHENGE BCE Stonehenge part of larger site, builders village found c ce Henge or Cromlech Sarsens (outer circle) Heel stone? Maryhill Stonehenge, Washington state Concrete!