PREHISTORIC ART

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PREHISTORIC ART
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CHRONOLOGY

• Prehistoric before writing
• Paleolithic Period (Paleo old, lithos stone)
  (Ice Age/Old Stone Age) c. 40,000 8,000 BCE
• Lower, Middle, Upper (most recent) based on
  relative position of objects found in the layers
  of excavation
• Mesolithic Period (Middle Stone Age) c. 10,000
  4,500 BCE (transitional)
• Neolithic Period (New Stone Age) c. 8,000 1,500
  BCE
• beginning and duration vary by location as
  glaciers retreat
• Near East, Turkey, Egypt c. 7,000 3,500 BCE
• Europe c. 4,500 1,500 BCE

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PALEOLITHIC ART40,000 8,000 BCE
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• Title Human with Feline Head
• Date c. 30,00026,000 BCE
• Medium Mammoth ivory
• Size height 11?" (29.6 cm)
• Source/Museum Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany /
  Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

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Title Woman from Willendorf Date c. 28,000
24,000 BCE Medium Limestone Size height 4?" (11
cm) Source/Museum Austria. Naturhistorisches
Museum, Vienna
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Venus the ideal woman
Venus de Milo, 130-120 BC, marble, 6 ½ ft,
Ancient Greece
The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1485, oil
on canvas
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Todays ideal woman? If the Venus of Willendorf
was discovered today, do you think she would have
wound up with the same name?
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Woman from Ostrava PetrkoviceCzech Republic. C.
23,000 BCEHermatite, height 1 ¾
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Title Two BisonDate c. 15,000 10,000
BCEMedium Unbaked claySize length 25" ( 63.5
cm) and 24" (60.9 cm)Source/Museum Le Tuc
dAudoubert, France
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NEGATIVE IMAGES
POSITIVE IMAGES
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Title Spotted Horses and Human Hands Date
Horses 25,00024,000 BCE hands c 15,000
BCE Medium Paint on limestone Size individual
horses are over 5' (1.5 m) in length. Source/Museu
m Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France
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Title Hall of Bulls Date c. 15,000 BCE Medium
Paint on limestone Size length of the largest
auroch (bull) 18' (5.50 m) Source/Museum Lascaux
Cave, Dordogne, France
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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
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Title Lamp with Ibex Design Medium Engraved
stone Date c. 15,00013,000 BCE Source/Museum
La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne, France
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ABORIGINAL PREHISTORIC ART
Title Mimis and Kangaroo Medium Red and yellow
ocher and white pipe clay Date Older painting
16,0007000 BCE Source/Museum Prehistoric rock
art, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, Australia
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wandjina
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NEOLITHIC ART8,000 1,500 BCE
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Jericho
Human Skull 6,000-5,500 BCE
Great Stone Tower
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Chatal Huyuk6500-5500 BCE
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• Title Tomb interior with corbeling and engraved
  stones
• Medium n/a
• Size n/a
• Date c. 30002500 BCE
• Source/Museum New Grange, Ireland

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Trilithons
Blue stones
Heel stone
http//www.stonehenge.co.uk/
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• Title Stonehenge
• Date c. 27501500 BCE
• Source/Museum Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England

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Tenon
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Sun TunnelsNancy Holt, 1974, Utah
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4 point Essay

• Name and date the image shown.
• What are some of the myths behind this
  monumental site?
• What do you think is or was its purpose?