2. Prehistoric (Stone Age) art is first known period of prehistoric human culture, during which work was done with stone tools. The period began with the earliest human development, about 2 million years ago. It is divided into three periods: 1. Paleolithic – Old Stone Age 2. Mesolithic – Middle Stone Age 3. Neolithic – New Stone Age
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4. Paleolithic (OLD stone) the longest phase of human history. Its most outstanding feature was the development of the human species-- Homo sapiens.
5. Paleolithic (OLD stone) Paleolithic peoples were generally nomadic hunters and gatherers who sheltered in caves, used fire, and fashioned stone tools. Their cultures are identified by distinctive stone-tool industries.
6. Paleolithic (OLD stone) By the Upper Paleolithic there is evidence of communal hunting, constructed shelters, and belief systems centering on magic and the supernatural. Rock carving and paintings reached their peak in the Magdalenian culture of Cro-Magnon man.
8. Mesolithic (middle Stone) The Mesolithic period, or Middle Stone Age, began at the end of the last glacial era, over 10,000 years ago. Cultures included gradual domestication of plants and animals, formation of settled communities, use of the bow, and development of delicate stone microliths and pottery.
10. Neolithic (new stone) The time periods and cultural content of the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, vary with geographic location. The earliest known Neolithic culture developed from the Natufian in Southwestern Asia between 9000 and 7000 BCE. In Southeast Asia a distinct type of Neolithic culture cultivated rice before 2000 BCE. and by 1500 BCE Neolithic cultures existed in Mesoamerica that led to the Aztec and Inca civilizations.
11. People lived in settled villages, cultivated grains and domesticated animals, developed pottery, spinning, and weaving, and evolved into the urban civilizations of the Bronze Age. New World peoples independently domesticated plants and animals, Neolithic (new stone)
21. “Venus” – the ideal woman Venus de Milo, 130-120 BC, marble, 6 ½ ft, Ancient Greece The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1485, oil on canvas
22. Woman from Ostrava PetrkoviceCzech Republic. C. 23,000 BCEHermatite, height 1 ¾”
23. Name:Two BisonDate:c. 15,000 – 10,000 BCEMedium:Unbaked claySize:length 25" ( 63.5 cm) and 24" (60.9 cm)Source/Museum:Le Tucd’Audoubert, France
24. Title:Spotted Horses and Human Hands Date:Horses 25,000–24,000 BCE; hands c 15,000 BCE Medium:Paint on limestone Size:individual horses are over 5' (1.5 m) in length. Source/Museum:Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France
25. Name:Hall of Bulls Date:c. 15,000 BCE Medium:Paint on limestone Size:length of the largest auroch (bull) 18' (5.50 m) Source/Museum:Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
26. Name:Bison Medium:Paint on limestone Size:length approx. 8'3" (2.5 m) Date:c. 12,500 BCE Source/Museum:Ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain
27. Title:Lamp with Ibex Design Medium:Engraved stone Date:c. 15,000–13,000 BCE Source/Museum:La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne, France
28. ABORIGINAL PREHISTORIC ART Title:Mimis and Kangaroo Medium:Red and yellow ocher and white pipe clay Date:Older painting 16,000–7000 BCE Source/Museum:Prehistoric rock art, Oenpelli, Arnhem Land, Australia
