Unit 1 - Art in the Prehistory

3. CAVE PAINTINGS
On the walls and ceilings of caves
Representing mostly animals (for
helping them in hunting), symbols, etc.
Very realistic representations

4. Altamira Caves Santillana del Mar (Cantabria)

5. Lascaux Caves Dordogne (France)

6. Hunting scene
Hand stencil

7. Small female figurines, carved out of stone
VENUS FIGURINES
They represent fertility and abundance:
- Wide hips and thighs.
- Exaggerated abdomen.
- Large breasts.
- Disproportionate vulva.
Venus of Willendorf

8. Venus of Laussel

10. ROCK PAINTING
Schematic
Symbols, people, hunting
scenes, dances
Religious meaning.

11. Çatalhöyük (Turkey)

12. POTTERY
First with geometrical inscriptions,
and later also painted

15. MEGALITHIC ART
Religious meaning  worshipping the sun,
celebrate solstices and equinoxes, tombs, etc.
Mega  Great, large
Lithos  Stone

16. MENHIR
Big stone standing vertically on the floor.
ALIGNMENT
Menhirs arranged in lines

17. CROMLECH
Menhirs arranged in circles

18. STONEHENGE
Salisbury
(United Kingdom)

19. 3rd millennium BCE
Solar cults  Summer solstice

20. DOLMEN
Several vertical stones holding a flat horizontal stone