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This is a cave painting from an aboriginal cave in Australia, demonstrating that indigenous cultures around the world have continued the tradition of painting on cave walls.
This image demonstrates x-ray vision. |
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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the Altamira cave, Santander, Spain, ca. 12,000–11,000 BCE.
Each bison approx. 5’ long.
Artists used local materials from nature, charcoal, ochre, white chalk, animal blood, crushed berries, etc. to create pigments |
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Bison Licking an Insect Bite
Carved and engraved on a fragment of a spear- thrower made of reindeer antler
La Madeleine, France, 20,000-12,000 BP
Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye |
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The "Chinese" Horse
...painted in yellow on the cave ceiling.
Lascaux, France, early period, 15000-13500 BC |
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The Chinese Horse from Lascaux was named such because art historian were reminded of the horses they had seen on Chinese paintings. |
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Dolmen
A neolithic structure usually regarded as a tomb, consisting of two or more large, upright stones set with a space between and capped by a horizontal stone |
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'HALL OF BULLS,'
Cave Painting from Lascaux, France.
28000 - 10000 BCE
Cows, bulls, horses, bison, and deer are among the animals seen on the walls in the caves at Lascaux. |
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"Venus" of Laussel
Woman holding a bison horn,
from Laussel, Dordogne, France, ca. 25,000–20,000 BCE. Painted limestone, approx. 1’ 6” high.
Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux.
Thios is an example of relief sculpture.
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menhir
A large upright standing stone.
Menhirs may be found singly as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones. |
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This is a menhir
A standing stone which has been carved. |
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Skara Brae
A large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney
Scotland |
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Stonehenge
A prehistoric monument located on the Salisbury Plain in south west England.
Beleived to measure the summer solstice. |
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Mammoth House
Made from animal tusks.
Found in grasslands where stone is less abundant. |
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The Venus of Willendorf
Also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is 11.5 cm high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.E.
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