Prehistoric

Prehistoric

1. c. 32,000 BCE (Chauvet Caves) to c. 7,000 (Neolithic settlements)

2. Cave Art

   • Lascaux, France
     • c. 17,000-15,000 BCE
     • Hall of Bulls
       • Disemboweled bison
   • Chauvet, France
     • Facing Horses
     • Red Dots Panel
     • Bison
     • 32,000-30,000 BCE
   • Neanderthals (~40,000-65,000 y.a.)
   • Depicts animals from Ice Age, humans
   • Peche-Merle, Dordogne, France 25,000 BCE

3. Sculptures

   • Venus of Willendorf
     • Austria 22.000 BCE
   • Lion Human
     • Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany 32,000 BCE
   • Stonehedge; Neolithic -> Megalitchic c.3000-1500 BCE

4. Prehistory into two camps: Paleolithic and Neolithic (old vs. new, nomadic vs. settled, “lithic” form the Greek for stone as these peoples worked with stone tools)

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