Paleolethic First Lecture

1. Paleolithic Art
3,000,000-9000 BCE

2. Prehistoric Europe And The Near East Map

3. Lion man,from Hohlenstein,
Germany ca. 30,000-28,000
BCE. Mammoth ivory, 11 5/8″
high. Ulcer Museum, Ulm.

4. Venus of Willendorf (nude
woman), from Willendorf,
Austria, ca. 28,000-25,000
BCE. Limestone, 4 1/4″ high.
Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna.

5. Woman holding a bison horn, from
Laussel, France, ca. 25,000-20,000
BCE. Painted limestone, 1’6″
high. Musée d’Aquitane, Bordeaux

6. Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France, ca.
15,000-10,000 BCE. Clay, right bison 2′ 7/8″ long.

7. Bison licking its flank, fragmentary spear-thrower, from La
Madeleine, France, ca. 12,000 BCE. Reindeer horn, 4′ 1/8″
long. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

8. Caves at Altamira ca. 35,000 to 11,000 BC

9. Bison Detail of a painted ceiling in the cave Altamira, Spain,
ca.13,000-11,000 BCE standing Bison 5’ 2 ½” long.

10. Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in
the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 23,000-22,000 BCE. 11’2″
long.

11. Hall of the Bulls - Lascaux, Dordogne, France ca. 15,000-13,000
BCE - Cave Painting - Largest Bull Approx. 138" long

12. Chauvet Cave (ca. 30,000 B.C.)

13. Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet
Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France, ca. 30,000-28,000 or ca.15,000-
13,000 BCE. Right rhinoceros 3’4″ long.

14. Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting
in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000-14,000
BCE. Bison 3′ 41/2″ long.

15. Aerial view of Stonehenge (looking northwest), Salisbury Plain,
Wiltshire, England, ca. 2550-1600 BCE. Circle 97′ in diameter;
trilithons 24′ high.