1-3 Lion-Human

Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

c. 30,000-26,000 BCE

Paleolithic Period

Mammoth ivory

height 11 5/8"

Woman From Willendorf

Austria

c. 24,000 BCE

Limestone

height 4 3/8"

Hall of Bulls:

Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France

c. 15,000 BCE

Paint on limestone

Stonehenge:

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

c. 2750-1500 BCE (Neolithic Period)

Lamassu:

palace of Assurnasirpal II, Mesopotamia, Assyria

c. 883-859 BCE

Alabaster

Height 10' 3 1/2"

Uruk Vase:

Uruk (Present day Warka, Iraq)

c.3300-3000 BCE

Alabaster

height 36"

Stele of Naram-Sin:

Akkadian

Susa

c.2220-2184 BCE

Limestone

6'6"

Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions:

Palace Complex of Assurnasirpal II

c. 850 BCE

Alabaster

height 39"

Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute:

Detailof a relief from the stairway leading to the Apandana (ceremonial Complex) Persepolis, Iran

c. 491-486 BCE

Limestone

height 8'4"

Narmer Palette:

Hierakonpolis

Early Dynastic period, c. 2950-2775 BCE

Green schist

height 25"

Great Pyramids:

Giza

Fourth Dynasty, c. 2575-2450

Erected by (from the left) Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu

Granite and limestone

Khafre:

Giza, Valley Temple of Khafre

Fourth Dynasty (ruled c. 2520-2494 BCE)

Anorthosite gneiss

height 5' 6"

Menkaure and a Queen:

Giza

Fourth Dynasty (ruled 2490-2472 BCE)

Graywacke with traces of red and black paint

height 54 1/2"

Seated Scribe:

found near the tomb of Kai, Saqqara

Fifth Dynasty, c. 2450-2325 BCE

Painted limestone with inlaid eyes of rock crystal, calcite, and copper

height 21"

Ti watching a Hippopotamus Hunt:

Tomb of Ti, Saqqara

Fifth Dynasty c. 2450-2325 BCE

Painted limestone relief

height 45"

Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut:

Eighteenth Dynasty, c. 1473-1458 BCE

Akhenaten and his family:

Akhetaten

Eighteenth Dynasty c. 1353-1336 BCE

painted limestone

Sunken relief in Amarna style

Flower and Bud Columns:

Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

Nineteenth Dynasty

Lapith Fighting a Centaur:

Metope relief from the Doric frieze on the south side of the Parthenon.

c. 447-432 BCE

marble

Horsemen:

Detail of the Procession, from the Ionic frieze on the north side of the Parthenon.

c. 447-432 BCE

Marble

Funerary Krater:

Dipylon Cemetary, Athens

c. 750-700 BCE (Geometric Period)

Attributed to the Hirchfeld Workshop

Ceramic, height 42"

Temple of Hera I:

Poseidonia

Doric Order temple

c. 550-540 BCE

Standing Youth (Kouros):

Attica

c. 600 BCE

Marble

height 6'

has an Egyptian pose, has an archaic smile

Death of Sarpedon:

Euphronios (painter) Euxitheos (potter)

c. 515 BCE

Red-figure decoration on a calyx krater

Ceramic, height 18"

Spear Bearer:

Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450-440 BCE (classical period0

Marble, height 6'11"

Made by Polykleitos

Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs:

Fragments of sculture from the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia

c. 470-460 BCE (Early classical)

Marble

Warrior A:

Found in the sea off Riace, Italy

c. 460-450 BCE (Early Classical)

Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips, and nipples

height 6'9"

Artemis Slaying Actaeon:

Pan Painter

c. 470 BCE (Early Classical)

Red-figure decoration on a bell krater

Ceramic, height 14"

Porch of the maidens:

Acropolis, Athens

c. 420-410 (High Classical)

six caryatids support Doric capitals and an Ionic etablature

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos:

Temple of Hera at Olympia

Praxiteles or his followers

Probably a Hellenistic or Roman copy after a Late Classical 4th-century BCE original

Marble, with remnants of red paint on the lips and hair

height 7'1"

Aphrodite of Knidos:

Composite of two similar Roman copies after the original marble of c. 350 BCE

marble, height 6'8"

Athena Attacking the Giants:

Detail of the frieze from the east front of the altar from Pergamon

c. 175-150 BCE (Hellenistic period)

Marble, height 7'7"

Parthenon, Acropolis:

Athens

447-432 BCE (High Classical)
Pantelic marble

Stele of Hammurabi:

Susa (present day Shush,Iran)

c. 1792-1750 BCE

Diorite
height 7'

Hammurabi standing Shamash (the Sun God and God of Justice) receiving the law

Modern man arrives in Europe

c. 40,000-8000 BCE

1. Farming 
2.  permanent settlements
3. domesticated animals

6500-1200 BCE

c. 2300-800 BCE

The period that followed the introduction of metal working

• 1000-50 BCE
• Iron became the commonly used metal for practical items because it was cheaper and more readily available
• A hierarchy of metals:
  1.  
     1. Gold
     2. Silver
     3. Bronze
     4. Iron
• The term proto-historic means that they left no written record but others wrote about them.