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Chapter 1~Prehistoric
Artist: n/a
Title: Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses,
and Aurochs
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: n/a
Date: c. 30,000–28,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc,
Ardèche Gorge, France
Artist: n/a
Title: Prehistoric Europe
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction drawing of mammoth-bone houses
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 16,000–10,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Ukraine
Artist: n/a
Title: Lion-Human
Medium: Mammoth ivory
Size: height 11⅝" (29.6 cm)
Date: c. 30,000–26,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany /
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Artist: n/a
Title: Woman from Willendorf
Medium: Limestone
Size: height 4⅜" (11 cm)
Date: c. 24,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Austria.
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
Artist: n/a
Title: Woman from Ostrava Petrkovice
Medium: Hematite
Size: height 1¾" (4.6 cm)
Date: c. 23,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Archaeological Institute,
Brno, Czech Republic
Artist: n/a
Title: Woman from Brassempouy
Medium: Ivory
Size: height 1¼ (3.6 cm)
Date: Probably c 30,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy,
Landes, France. Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye,
France
Artist: n/a
Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: individual horses are over 5' (1.5 m) in
length.
Date: Horses 25,000–24,000 BCE; hands c 15,000
BCE
Source/Museum: Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France
Artist: n/a
Title: Technique: Prehistoric Wall Painting
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Hall of Bulls
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: length of the largest auroch (bull) 18'
(5.50 m)
Date: c. 15,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
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Artist: n/a
Title: Bird-Headed Man with Bison
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: length approx. 9' (2.75 m)
Date: c. 15,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Shaft scene in Lascaux Cave
Artist: n/a
Title: Bison
Medium: Paint on limestone
Size: length approx. 8'3" (2.5 m)
Date: c. 12,500 BCE
Source/Museum: Ceiling of a cave at Altamira,
Spain
Artist: n/a
Title: Bison
Medium: Unbaked clay
Size: length 25" ( 63.5 cm) and 24" (60.9 cm)
Date: c. 13,000 BCE
Source/Museum: Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France
Artist: n/a
Title: Lamp with ibex design
Medium: Engraved stone
Size: n/a
Date: c. 15,000–13,000 BCE
Source/Museum: La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne, France
Artist: n/a
Title: People and Animals
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 4000–2000 BCE
Source/Museum: Detail of rock-shelter painting,
Cogul, Lérida, Spain
Artist: n/a
Title: Plan, village of Skara Brae (Numbers refer
to individual houses)
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 3100–2600 BCE
Source/Museum: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Artist: n/a
Title: Elements of Architecture: Post-and-Lintel
and Corbel Construction
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: House interior, Skara Brae
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Artist: n/a
Title: Tomb interior with corbeling and engraved
stones
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 3000–2500 BCE
Source/Museum: New Grange, Ireland
Artist: n/a
Title: Stonehenge
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 2750–1500 BCE
Source/Museum: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England
Artist: n/a
Title: Diagram of Stonehenge
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Figure of a woman
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 4½" (11.5 cm)
Date: c. 3500 BCE
Source/Museum: Cernavoda, Romania; National
Historical Museum, Bucharest
Artist: n/a
Title: Figure of a man
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 4½" (11.5 cm)
Date: c. 3500 BCE
Source/Museum: Cernavoda, Romania; National
Historical Museum, Bucharest
Artist: n/a
Title: Vessels
Medium: Ceramic
Size: heights range 5¾" to 12¼" (14.5 to 31 cm)
Date: c. 3000–2000 BCE
Source/Museum: Denmark. National Museum of
Denmark, Copenhagen
Artist: n/a
Title: Horse and Sun Chariot
Medium: Bronze
Size: length 23¼" (59.2 cm)
Date: c. 1800–1600 BCE
Source/Museum: Trundholm, Denmark . National
Museum, Copenhagen
Artist: n/a
Title: Schematic drawing of incised design,
Horse and Sun Chariot
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Artist: n/a
Title: Openwork box lid
Medium: Bronze
Size: diameter 3" (7.5 cm)
Date: La Tène period, c. 1st century BCE
Source/Museum: Cornalaragh County Monaghan,
Ireland / National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
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