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Paleolithic & Neolithic Art

  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Paleolithic & Neolithic Art

    Cave Art (or Paleolithic Art) is a broad term for the earliest known art-making in human history This movement is perhaps best-known today for the paintings found on the walls of many prehistoric caves, rich in depictions of animals, human figures, and forms that are a combination of man and beast. (Neolithic) also involves sculptures of female or male figures which include animals and Stonehenge.
  • Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel (ca. 38,000 BC), discovered in Germany in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in 1939
    38,000 BCE

    Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel (ca. 38,000 BC), discovered in Germany in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in 1939

    This figure is carved from ivory from mammoth, along with animal and human elements, it has a lions head and has a human form of legs, Humans back then were unintelligent or unimaginative, until time involved in its creation. "an experiment by Wulf Hein using the same sort of stone tools available in the ice age indicate that the Lion Man took more than 400 hours to make."
  • Panel of Horses (33,000-22,000 BC) Found in the Chauvet cave
    33,000 BCE

    Panel of Horses (33,000-22,000 BC) Found in the Chauvet cave

    In this beautiful painting Known as the Panel of Horses, as well as providing an important historical record, that use to exist in the prehistoric France, early artists captured details of the world around them. The techniques that includes details and perspectives, characterizing the pieces at Chauvet has been discussed as well.
  • Plastered human skull with shell eyes from jericho (c. 7200 B.C.E, Neolithic) (The British Museum, London)
    7200 BCE

    Plastered human skull with shell eyes from jericho (c. 7200 B.C.E, Neolithic) (The British Museum, London)

    Plastered skulls have been found around the area of Levant, including Jericho. People were often burried under their homes or floors and sometimes their skulls were removed and covered with plaster to create like-like faces. The tradition to these skulls has been that they offered reserving and worshiping male ancestors. There are also research that shows 61 plastered skulls that's been found and bodies of women and children.
  • Stonehenge (c. 2550-1600 B.C.E) circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons: 24 feet high ( Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England)
    2550 BCE

    Stonehenge (c. 2550-1600 B.C.E) circle 97 feet in diameter, trilithons: 24 feet high ( Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England)

    The Stonehenge is an example of cultural advances by Neolithic revolution, which was the most important to human development history. The people that were in the Fourth millennium B.C.E who began working on the Stonehenge were contemporary with the first dynasties of Ancient Egypt, and their efforts predate the building of the pyramids.
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    “Cave Art Movement Overview.” The Art Story. Accessed September 13, 2025. https://www.theartstory.org/movement/cave-art. Smarthistory – the neolithic revolution. Accessed September 13, 2025. https://smarthistory.org/the-neolithic-revolution/.