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Prehistoric Art

By Rmesander
  • Period: 35,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age)

  • Engraved Orchres
    31,000 BCE

    Engraved Orchres

    The orchres were found in the Blombos cave in South Africa near the Southern Cape Coast.
  • Naturalism Being Portrayed in Cave Paintings
    25,000 BCE

    Naturalism Being Portrayed in Cave Paintings

    The artists had started to pay more attention to how they were illustrating their paintings and used that knowledge to help create more naturalistic looking paintings. They would use the way the rocks were formed to help create more realistic and 3D characteristics in the paintings. The artists also included more shading to help with the more naturalistic looks.
  • Lascaux Cave paintings
    15,000 BCE

    Lascaux Cave paintings

    Found in caves near common day Montagnards, France.
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)

    The Neolithic era was known for the creations of new technologies. The people of this time started to develop more stable lasting architecture along with using more materials from the land around them.
  • 4000 BCE

    End of Near East and Egypt Neolithic Age

  • Stonehenge
    3700 BCE

    Stonehenge

  • Dolmen Architecture

    Dolmen Architecture

    This structure is suspected to be a tomb.