Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art

• TERMS: sculpture in the round, relief sculpture, memory image, abstract, composite pose, modeling, post and lintel, construction, corbeling, ridgepole, wattle and daub, megalithic architecture, dolmen, cairn, passage grave, vault, henge, mortise- and-tenon joints, ceramics, kiln, potsherds, alloy

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Prehistoric Europe Timeline of Culture: Prehistory

Periods:

• Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age): 40,000-10,000 BCE • Neolithic Period (New Stone Age): 6500-1000 BCE • Bronze Age: 3000-500 BCE

1-3 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Hand-axe Medium: Stone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE 1-4 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Decorated Ocher Medium: Ocher Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

1-5 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Reconstruction of Mammoth-bone houses Medium: Mammoth-bones, animal fur, and dirt Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Ukraine

1-6 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Lion-Human Medium: Mammoth ivory Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

1-7 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Woman from Willendorf Medium: Painted limestone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE 1-8 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Woman from Dolni Vestonice Medium: Fired Clay Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

1-9 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Woman from Brassempouy Medium: Ivory Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

1-1 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Spotted Horses and Human Hands Medium: Paint on limestone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Peche Merle Cave, France

1-11 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Hall of Bulls Medium: Paint on limestone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Lascaux Cave, France

1-12 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Bird-Headed Man with Bison Medium: Paint on limestone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Lascaux Cave, France

1-13 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Bison Medium: Paint on limestone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Altamira Cave, Spain

1-14 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Bison Medium: Unbaked clay Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE Location: Tuc d'Audoubert Cave, France

1-15 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Paleolithic Title: Lamp with Ibex Design Medium: Engraved stone Date: 40,000-10,000 BCE

p. 15 (top) Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Reconstruction of a House Medium: Wood, brick, and plaster Date: 6500-1000 BCE Location: Catalhoyuk , Turkey 1-16 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Reconstruction of House/Shrine Medium: Wood, brick, and clay Date: 6500-1000 BCE Location: Lepenski Vir, Serbia

1-20 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Tomb Interior Medium: Stone, pebbles, dirt, and grass Date: 6500-1000 BCE Location: Newgrange, Ireland

1-21 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Stonehenge Medium: Stone Date: 6500-1000 BCE Location: Salisbury Plain, England 1-22 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Reconstruction of Durrington Walls Medium: Wood Date: 6500-1000 BCE Location: Salisbury Plain, England

1-24 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Jomon Pot Medium: Ceramic Date: 6500-1000 BCE

p. 24 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Figure of a woman (left) and a man (right) Medium: Ceramic Date: 6500-1000 BCE

1-26 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Ain Ghazal Human Figure Medium: Fired lime plaster, cowrie shell, bitumen, and paint Date: 6500-1000 BCE 1-28 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Neolithic Title: Scepters Medium: Gold Date: 6500-1000 BCE

1-29 Culture: Prehistory Period/Style: Bronze Title: Boat and Sea Battle Medium: Rock carving Date: 3000-500 BCE Location: Fossum, Sweden