Chapter 1: Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe Image Links

Chapter 1

Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe

  A. THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD
    1. The Beginning of Architecture
    2. Sculpture
    3. Cave Art

  B. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
    1. Rock-Shelter Art
    2. Architecture
    3. Scultpure and Ceramics

  C. THE BRONZE AGE

  D. THE IRON AGE

Prehistory and Prehistoric Art in Europe

 A. THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD   top

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Wall with Horses, Cosquer Cave, Cap Morgiou, France, c. 16,5000 BCE. Charcoal and manganese dioxide on limestone

An overview of prehistoric art, with images by Brian Clardy

    1. The Beginning of Architecture   top

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Reconstruction drawing of mammoth-bone house from Ukraine, c. 16,000 - 10,000 BCE

    2. Sculpture    top

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An image of the Lion-Human figure from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany. c. 30,000 - 26,000 BCE. Mammoth ivory, height 11 5/8". Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

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The Woman of Willendorf, Austria. c. 22,000 - 21,000 BCE. Limestone, height 43/8" (11 cm). Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

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The Woman from Ostrava Petrkovice, Czech Republic. c. 23,000 BCE. Hematite, height 13/4" (4.6 cm). Archaeological Institute, Brno

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The Woman from Brassempouy, Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France. c. 22,000 BCE. Ivory, height 11/4" (3 cm). Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St.-Germain-en-Laye

    3. Cave Art    top

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Spotted Horses and Human Hands, Pech-Merle cave, Dordogne, France. Horses c. 16,000 BCE; hands c. 15,000 BCE. Paint on limestone, length approx. 11'2" (3.4 m)

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Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain. c. 12,000 BCE. Paint on limestone, length approx. 8'3" (2.5 m)

Fig. 1-9.
Plan of Lascaux Caves, Dordogne, France.

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Hall of Bulls Lascaux caves. c. 15,000 - 13,000 BCE. Paint on limestone

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Bird-Headed Man with Bison and Rhinoceros, Lascaux caves. c. 15,000 - 13,000 BCE. Paint on limestone, length approx. 9' (2.75 m)

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Bison, Le Tuc d'Audoubert, Ariège, France. c. 13,000 BCE. Unbaked clay, length 25" (63.5 cm) and 24" (60.9 cm)

 B. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD   top


This site shows an unusual Neolithic image from Finland, "Hunting Beluga in the White Sea," c. 2, 000 BCE.

    1. Rock-Shelter Art    top

People and Animals facsimile of detail of rock-shelter painting, Cogul, Lérida, Spain. c. 4000 - 2000 BCE

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Plan, village of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland. c. 3100 - 2600 BCE

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House interior, Skara Brae (house 7 in fig. 1-15)

Rock Art in Valtellina, in the Alps, shows Neolithic and first Copper age engravings

    2. Architecture    top

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Tomb interior with corbeling and engraved stones, Newgrange, Ireland. c. 3000 - 2500 BCE

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Several images of the Menhir Alignments at Ménec, Carnac, France. c. 4250 - 3750 BCE

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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. c. 2750 - 1500 BCE

Images of Stonehenge (with links)

Fig. 1-20
Diagram of Stonehenge

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Figures of a man and a woman from Cernavoda, Romania, c. 4000-3500 BC - Ceramic

  C. THE BRONZE AGE   top

Fig. 1-24
Horse and Sun Chariot and schematic drawing of incised design, from Trundholm, Zealand, Denmark. c. 1800 - 1600 BCE. Bronze, length 231/4" (59.2 cm). National Museum, Copenhagen

A variety of Bronze Age artifacts from the Ural-Kazakhstan Steppes

  D. THE IRON AGE

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