Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the
Chapter 1 The Birth of Art: Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age For art historians to declare a piece an artwork, it must have been modified by human intervention beyond mere selection. Waterworn pebble resembling a human face
Makapansget, South Africa 3,000,000 BC Reddish brown jasperite 2 3/8 wide Animal Facing Left Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia23,000 BC Charcoal on Stone5 x 4 1/4 Venus of Willendorf Willendorf, Austria 28, ,000 BC Limestone 4 1/2 high High Relief, Clay, each figure @ 2 long
Two Bison Cave at Le Tuc dAudoubert,Ariege, France, 15,000-10,000 BC High Relief, Clay, each 2 long Bison With Turned Head La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, 12,000 BC
Fragmentary Spearthrower, Reindeer Horn, 4 long, Bas-relief (detail of a painted ceiling)
Bison (detail of a painted ceiling) Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain 12, ,000 BC (discovered 1879) Each 5 long Hall of the Bulls (left wall), Lascaux, Dordogne, France,
15, ,000 BCLargest 11 6 long Aurochs, Horses, and Rhinoceroses,
Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-dArcArdeche, France, 30, ,000 BC or 15, ,000 BC Great stone tower built into the settlement wall,
Jericho BC Ruins of Jerichos walls today, Human Figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan BC 3 5 3/8 high Schematic reconstruction drawing of a section of Level VI,
Catal Hoyuk, Turkey BC Deer Hunt, detail of a wall painting from Level III,
Catal Hoyuk, Turkey BC Landscape with Volcanic Eruption Catal Hoyuk, Turkey 6150 BC
(Considered by many to be the worlds first landscape) Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, 2550 -1600 BC
Stonehenge Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, BC Circle is 97 in diameter, trilithons 24 high