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| DECORATED OCHER, Blombos Cave, South Africa, 77,000 B.C. PALEOLITHIC |
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| WALL PAINTING WITH HORSES, RHINOCEROSES, AND AUROCHS, Chauvet Cave, France, 32,000-30,000 B.C (paint on limestone) PALEOLITHIC |
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| SPOTTED HORSES AND HUMAN HANDS, Pech-Merle Cave, France.... Horses = 25-24,0000 B.C. Hands= 15,000 B.C. (paint on limestone) PALEOLITHIC |
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| CAVE PAINTINGS, Lascaux cave, France 15,000 B.C (paint on limestone) PALEOLITHIC |
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| CAVE PAINTINGS, Altimira, Spain 12,000 B.C. (paint on limestone) PALEOLITHIC |
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| LION-HUMAN, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany 30,000-26,000 B.C. (mammoth ivory, h 11") PALEOLITHIC |
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| WOMAN FROM BRASSEMPOUY, France 30,000 B.C. (ivory, h 1") PALEOLITHIC |
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| WOMAN FROM WILLENDORF, Austria 24,000 B.C. (limestone, h 4") PALEOLITHIC |
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| BISON, Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France 13,000 B.C. (unbaked clay, L 25" and 24") PALEOLITHIC |
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| PLASTERED HUMAN SKULLS, Jericho, Palestine 8,000 B.C. NEAR EASTERN |
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| HUMAN FIGURE, Jordan 6500 B.C. (fired lime plaster with shell, bitumen, and paint.... height 35") NEAR EASTERN |
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| STONEHENGE, Salisbury Plain, England 2900-1500 B.C. (bluestone) NEAR EASTERN |
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| THE WARKA VASE, Uruk, 3200-3000 B.C. (alabaster) NEAR EASTERN |
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| THE MASK OF WARKA (goddess Inanna?), Bagdad, Iraq 3200-3000 B.C. (marble) NEAR EASTERN |
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| VOTIVE STATUES, Square Temple, Eshnunna (Iraq) 2900-2600 B.C. (limestone, alabaster, and gypsum.... largest figure 30") NEAR EASTERN |
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| THE GREAT LYRE WITH BULL'S HEAD, Royal Tombs, UR 2600-2500 B.C. (wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell.... H 14") NEAR EASTERN |
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| THE STANDARD OF UR, 2600 B.C. (shell, limestone, lapis lazuli, bitumen) NEAR EASTERN |
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| STELE OF NARAM-SIN, 2254 -2218 B.C. (limestone, height 6'6") NEAR EASTERN |
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| Uruk period (Sumerians) system of writing, used a reed stylus on wet clay tablets which were baked in the sun[image]. Would use Cylinder Seals as well. |
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| CYLINDER SEAL, tomb of Queen Puabi, Iraq 2600-2500 B.C. (lapis lazuli) NEAR EASTERN |
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| VOTIVE STATUE OF GUDEA, Iraq 2090 B.C. (diorite) NEAR EASTERN |
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| STELE OF HUMMURABI, Susa, Iran 1792-1750 B.C. (basalt, H 7') NEAR EASTERN |
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| HUMAN HEADED WINGED LION (Lamassu), Palace of Assurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Iraq 883-859 B.C. (alabaster, H 10') NEAR EASTERN |
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| ASSURNASIRPAL II KILLING LIONS, palace complex Nimrud, Iraq 875-860 B.C. (alabaster 39") NEAR EASTERN |
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