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Chapter
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Art
Before the Written Word
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Map
of Pre Historic Europe.
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Woman
from Brassempouy, France. Ivory, 22,000 BCE
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Lion-Human
from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany. Mammoth ivory, 30,000-26,000 BCE
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Woman
from Willendorf, Austria. Limestone, 22,000-21,000 BCE |
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Wall
painting with four horses, Chauvet cave, France. Paint on limestone,
28,000 BCE |
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Plan of Lascaux cave, France. |
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Lascaux cave. Paint on limestone, 15,000-13,000 BCE |
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Lascaux
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Lascaux
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Lascaux
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Lascaux
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Bison,
on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain. Paint on limestone, 12,000
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Jomon
vessel, ceramic, 10,000 BCE |
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"The
Iceman", 5000 years old (?) man found in the Otztal, near Finailspitze |
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"The
Iceman" |
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"The
Iceman"
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"The
Iceman"
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"The
Iceman"
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Stonehenge,
Wiltshire, England. 2750-1500 BCE |
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Diagram
of Stonehenge
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End
of Chapter 1
(page 1 of 1)
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Stonehenge |
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Stonehenge |
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Colossal
head, from La Venta, Mexico. Basalt, 900-500 BCE |
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Ancestor figures (moai?), Easter Island, Polynesia. Volcanic
stone, 1500-1000 CE |
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