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Anonymous. Wall painting: Horses, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche gorge, France. ca. 30,000 BCE.

Approx. height: 6'.


Map: Major Paleolithic caves in France and Spain.


Anonymous. Wall painting with bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros, Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France. ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE.

Approx. length: 9'.


Anonymous. Woman (Venus of Willendorf), found at Willendorf, Austria. ca. 25,000-20,000 BCE.

Height: 4".


Anonymous. Methods of carving: Woman holding an animal horn, Laussel, Dordogne, France. ca. 30,000-15,000 BCE.

Height: 17-3/8".


Anonymous. Reconstruction of a mammoth-bone house, Mezhirich, Ukraine. ca. 16,000-10,000 BCE.


Map: The Great river valley civilizations ca. 2000 BCE.


Anonymous. Early Neolithic wall and tower, Jericho, Jordan. ca. 7500 BCE.


Anonymous. Plastered skull from Jericho. Pre-pottery Neolithic B period. ca. 7000-6000 BCE.

Life size.


Anonymous. House interior, Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.ca. 3100-2600 BCE.


Village of Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Plan. 1776.


Anonymous. Deep bowl with sculptural rim, late Middle Jomon period (ca. 2500–1600 BCE), Japan. ca. 2000 BCE.

14-1/2" x 12-1/3”.


Anonymous. Basin (pen), Majiayao culture, Majiayao phase, Gansu Province, China. ca. 3200-2700 BCE.

Diameter: 11".


Anonymous. Beaker with ibex, dogs, and long-necked birds, from Susa, southwest Iran. ca. 5000–4000 BCE.

Height: 11-1/4".


Anonymous. Head, Nok. ca. 500-200 BCE.Height: 14-3/16".


Anonymous. Neolithic menhir alignments at Ménec, Carnac, Brittany, France. ca. 4250-3750 BCE.


Anonymous. Neolithic dolmen. Poulnabrone Dolmen, on the Burren limestone plateau, County Clare, Ireland. ca. 2500 BCE.


Anonymous. Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.ca. 2750–1500 BCE.


How the stone trilithons at Stonehenge were built (7 color ills.).ca. 2750–1500 BCE.


The Design and Making of Stonehenge: Reconstruction of the complete monument, aerial view (color ill.). ca. 2750–1500 BCE.


Materials & Techniques: Post-and-lintel and corbel construction in the Neolithic period (line drawing). ca. 2750–1500 BCE.


San people. Wall painting: Giraffes, zebra, eland, and abstract shapes, San People, Inanke, Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe. Before 1000 CE.


Anasazi. Cliff dwelling: Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde, Colorado, Anasazi culture. ca. 1200-1300 CE.


Anasazi. Diagram: Cribbed roof construction of a kiva at the Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde, Colorado, Anasazi culture. ca. 1200-1300 CE.


Zuni. Buffalo Kachina Doll, Zuni Culture. ca. 1875 CE.


Shinto. Naiku (Inner) Shrine housing Amaterasu, Ise, Japan (periodically reconstructed). Late 5th-early 6th century CE.


Olmec. Map: Olmec civilization sites, Mesoamerica. 1300-400 BCE.


Olmec. Colossal head, Mexico, Olmec culture. 900-500 BCE.Height: 7' 5".


Anasazi & Mound builders. Map: Archeological sites of the Anasazi and the Mound builders in North America. 14,000-10,000 BCE following.


Hopewell. Great Serpent Mound, Adams County (near Locust Grove), Ohio, Hopewell culture. ca. 600 BCE-200 CE or 1070 CE.

Length: ca. 1254'.


Mississippian. Reconstruction: Central Cahokia, East St. Louis, Illinois, Mississippian culture. ca. 1150 CE.

East–west length approx. 3 mi.; north–south length approx. 2-1/4 mi.; base of Great Mound, 1,037' x 790'; height approx. 100'.


Anonymous. Wall painting. Detail of Horse. Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche gorge, France. ca. 30,000 BCE.


Susan Rothenberg. Untitled [horse]. 1978.20" x 20".

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