Pech-merle Cave (france)- painted on limestone, spotted horses and human hand print 25K BCE Western Arnhem Land (australia)- ritualistic, reproductive power of people- 6K BCE Chauvet cave (france) 30K BCE- painted on limestone, horses, rhinoceroses and aurochs- composite pose (profile) Lascaux cave (france)- aurochs on limestone, Birdheaded man with bison Altamira (spain)- animals painted over irregular rock for 3d effect, bison- 12K BCE Le Tuc d'Audoubert- 13K BCE, unbaked clay bison

Paleolithic

Salisbury Plain, England ancient burial/ritual grounds bluestone, sarsen, sandstone mortise-tenon river upon avon durrington walls solar alignment

Neolithic

Mesopotamia 2.2K BCE 2 m height hieratic scale military domination 3 solar deities head/legs in profile but not torso limestone

Akkad

Akkad, Iraq copper beard pattern- symbol of royalty sharp facial features

Akkad

2.3K BCE

Ur, Iraq 2.5K BCE wood, gold over 1 m in height registers with tale of gilgamesh, immortality

Akkad

Girsu, Iraq 2K BCE 70 cm in height Diorite, hard stone rounder features, gentle interpreter of dreams *liquid flowing* inscriptions large eyes like Sargon's head, similar style hat votive- stand in for spiritual function

Akkad

Susa, Iran 1.7K BCE Diorite 70 cm height beard like Sargon dress like Gudea same hat codification of law

Babylon

Assurnasirpal killing lions 850 BCE low relief torso aligned with body superimposed for depth alabaster

assyrian

Dur Sharrukin, 700 BCE palace complex- ziggurat, throne room, palace, enclosed by wall lamassus guardians- human head, lion body, eagle wings eyes similar to Gudea/Sargon, beard

Assyrian

Iraq, alabaster 650 BCE palace life, domestic subject underline of military might, head on platter

Assyrian

Early Dynastic, 3K BCE symbolic language, hieroglyphs narmer beating lower egypt to death, wearing the crown hieratic scale, bull, eagle circular depression for crushing face paint torso not aligned, some superimposition unification of lower/upper egypt

mastaba, serdab inside, necropolis Imhotep, 2.5K BCE step pyramid

Early Dynastic

Fourth Dynasty 2.5K BCE Khufu. Khafre, Men kaure east to west alignment with the sun reconnecting with Ra funerary processions in complex

Old Kingdom

Complex including the great sphinx, 2.5K BCE' Diorite statue, muscle toned, symbols- bull, eagle, lotus, papyrus lifelike, 3d

old Kingdom

dignified expressions stylized, soft but realistic one foot foward 2.5K BCE

Old kingdom

lifelike fashion, colored instead of just material more realistic postures fifth dynasty 2.4K BCE Painted limestone

Old kingdom

Eighteentg Dynasty 1.5K BCE female ruler represented in male dress, headdress, false beard red granite

New Kingdom

Temple of Karnak 4 m height 1.3K BCE new amarna style slanted eyes, physical distortions

New Kingdom

1.3K BCE Painted on limestone relief courtyard subject, domestic superimposition of babies on figure of wife and akhenaten

New Kingdom