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Visual Arts: Prehistoric Art

Note!

Remember to Use POWER Databases!

Timeline of Art History

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History 8000 - 2000BC

Take a virtual tour of the Caves at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, France

Websites - Prehistoric Art

Art History Resources
Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures
EDSITEment
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Introduction to Prehistoric Art, 20,000–8000 B.C.
The Met
Prehistoric art
Khan Academy
Prehistoric Art: General
Art History Resources. Lots of Links!
Prehistoric art in Europe and West Asia
Khan Academy
Prehistoric Arts of the Eastern Mediterranean
J Paul Getty Museum

See!

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324444

Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace 3rd–2nd millennium B.C

Bowl Majiayao phase (ca. 3200–2650 B.C.) China

Monstrous male figure ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.

Seated female ca. 5600–5000 B.C. Halaf

Figure 2200–2000 B.C. Valdivia

Reclining mouflon ca. 2600–1900 B.C. Indus

Marble seated harp player 2800–2700 B.C. Cycladic