ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Prehistoric Art

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
Professor of Art History
Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Online since 24 October 1995

Prehistoric Art
Last updated February 2010

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PREHISTORIC ART

Art in the Ancient Near East

Ancient Egyptian Art

Ancient Greek Art

Ancient Roman Art

Art of Late Antiquity

Renaissance Art in Italy

Renaissance Art Outside Italy

Art in Southeast Asia

Art in Africa

Art of the Americas

Art of Pacific Cultures

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BOOKS by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
(Leiden: Brill, 2004)
414 pages, 37 illustrations

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Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder
(London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008)
469 pages, 320 illustrations

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PREHISTORIC ART: General
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Stone Age Art (through ArtLex)
Prehistoric Art and Culture
European Prehistoric Cultures (part of Before History: Prehistoric Artifacts in the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College)
EuroPreArt, a data-base of European prehistoric art documentation with more than 800 records, 2700 images, 2800 reference titles (funded by the European Union, Education and Culture 2000 Programme)
OriginsNet, Three Million Years of Prehistoric Art, Religion and Symbol in Human Evolution (James B. Harrod)
Prehistoric Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Prehistoric Temples of Malta (Mike Gunther)
Megalithic Temples of Malta (Daniel Cilia)
Malta Heritage Sites
Prehistoric, Malta (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum) (through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
Prehistoric Art (through the Bradshaw Foundation)
British Prehistory in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site
20,000 - 8000 B.C. (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Blackwater Draw (9500 - 3000 B.C.) North America
- Fell's Cave (9000 - 8000 B.C.) South America
- Lascaux (ca. 1500 B.C.) Europe
- Chauvet Cave, Southern France
- Wadi Kubbaniya (ca. 17,000 - 15,000 B.C.) Egypt
- Eynan/Ain Mallaha (10,000 - 8200 B.C.) West Asia
- African Rock Art
  - Northern Zone, with a link to
    - Tassili-n-Ajjer (by 4000 B.C. - ?)
  - Central Zone
  - Southern Zone
    - Apollo 11 Cave Stones and Wonderwerk Cave Stones (ca. 25,500 - 23,500 B.C. and ca. 8000 B.C.)
    - The Coldstream Stone
    - Game Pass
    - Nomansland
    - San Ethnography
- Pachmari Hills (ca. 9000 - 3000 B.C.) South Asia
- Mal'ta (ca. 20,000 B.C.) Central and North Asia
- Jiahu (ca. 7000 - 5700 B.C.) China
- Ubirr (40,000? B.C. - Present) Australia
- Yayoi Culture (ca. 4th century B.C. - 3rd century A.D.) Japan

PREHISTORIC ART: Paleolithic
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Accueil prehistoire Conseil Général de la Dordogne
- Lascaux
- Archéologie
- Other sites (La grotte de de Rouffignac ou grotte aux Cent Mamouths, and la grotte de Villars)
The Cave of Lascaux
The Cave of Lascaux - Lascaux II (useful visitor information)
The Lascaux Cave—a prehistoric sky-map
Lascaux (ca. 1500 B.C.) (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
The Cave of Chauvet - Pont-d'Arc, France
Grotte Chauvet Archaeologically Dated (Dr. Christian Züchner, Institute of Prehistory, University Erlangen-Nürnberg), plus The Pont-d'Arc Venus: Aurignacian, Gravettian or Magdalenian?
Chauvet Cave (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
The Cosquer Cave, France (through Underwater Archaeology)
- A Very Unique Cave
- Virtual Visit
- Land Animals
- Marine Animals
- The Hands
Prehistoric Cave of Rouffignac
Le gisement du Roc-aux-Sorciers à Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne, France
Centre de Préhistoire de Pech Merle
- Introduction
- Visit to the Cave
- Museum (in French)
- Autres grottes ornées de la région Lot-Célé
- Actualités scientifiques
La grotte de Gouy (in Normandy, near Rouen)
La grotte de Cussac, Le Buisson de Cadouin (Dordogne)
- La Découverte
- La Grotte
- Les Figures
La frise sculptée de l'Abri Bourdois
La grotte de Niaux
Grotte de Niaux (useful visitor information)
La grotte de Bédeilhac (painted Palaeolithic cave in Ariège, France)
- Contexte Archéologique
- Art pariétal
- L'art mobilier
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Cave Paintings (Mark Harden's Artchive), with links to images of:
- Bison, Altamira, Spain
- Chinese Horse, Lascaux, France
- wounded bison, man, rhinoceros (the well scene), Lascaux, France
Paleoesthetique (Emmanuel Guy)
Cave Paintings (through mystudios.com)
- Wounded Bison, Lascaux
- Bison, Altamira
- Bisons, Altamira
Paintings, Engravings and Sculptures, (through Don's Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock)
- Cave Paintings and Sculptures, and page 2 and page 3
- Lascaux Cave - beauty under threat
- Niaux Cave
- Chauvet Cave
- Cussac Cave
- Grotte de Villars
- Cap Blanc
- Rock Art at Alta, Norway
- Rock Art at Bornholm, Denmark
- Visits to the Caves and Rock Art Sites
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria
- The Cave at Altamira
- Discovery
- Altamira Museum through time
- Conservation of Altamira
Las Cuevas de Altamira
Cuevas Históricas: Altamira
Altamira Cave (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Palaeolithic (part of Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum), through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
- Cave Paintings
  - Kapova
    Spain
  - Altamira
    France
  - Lascaux
  - Rouffignac
  - Niaux
  - Pech Merle
  - Cosquer
  - Chauvet
    South America
  - Brasilia
- Portable Art
Venus Figures from the Stone Age (through Don's Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock)
- Venus of Willendorf
- The Venus figures of Neuchâtel and Courbet
- Other Venus figures from France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy
- The Ceramic Venus of Dolni Vestonice
- Venus figures from Russia,the Ukraine and sites East of the Donau mouth
- The Tan-Tan Venus
Venus of Willendorf (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
The Venus of Willendorf (essay by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe)
- Discovery
- What's In A Name?
- Woman from Willendorf
- Stone-Age Women
- Earth Mother - Mother Goddess
Seven Palaeolithic Figurines from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection
Palaeolithic Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Palaeolithic Art Objects: The Franco-Cantabrian Region
Prehistoric Art of the Pyrenees, an exhibition, April 3 - July 8 1996, Musée des Antiquités nationales- Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Castle), with a link to the:
- Itinerary (including a number of images)
Signs of Consciousness: Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, an essay by J. A. Cheyne
The Lionlady (found in the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Valley of Lone, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Lionheaded figurine
Ice Age Art: An exhibition of Ice Age Art and Symbol:
- Art and Human Evolution
- The Sites of Paleolithic Art
- The Ages of Humankind
- Indications of Ritual
- The Venus Figure
- Cave Art: Altamira
  - The Painted Ceiling of Altamira Cave
  - Standing Bison
- Art from other sites in Spain
  - Outlined in red on a cave wall
  - Bowmen and Deer
- Cave Art: Lascaux
  - The Hall of Bulls
  - Two Bison
- Animals in their Seasons
30,000 Years Ago: Surviving the Paleolithic: A Journey into the Unknown
- Fiction (Trailer)
- Nonfiction (Trailer)
PREHISTORIC ART: Mesolithic
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- Mesolithic (part of Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum), through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
PREHISTORIC ART: Neolithic
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- Neolithic Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Life along the Danube 6500 years ago (through Great Archaeological Sites sites archéologique produced by the French Ministère de la culture et de la communication:
  - Time and Place
  - Hârsova: The Chalcolithique Village
- The Neolithic Village of 'Ain Ghazal
- Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan (the 'Ain Ghazal statues) An exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  - Introduction to the statues
  - Discovering the statues
  - Making the statues
  - Preserving the statues
  - Investigating art and ritual
  - Images and Exhibit Labels
- Çatalhöyük, excavations at a Neolithic Anatolian Höyük
- Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (through the Science Museum of Minnesota), with a link to a Virtual Tour
- Anatolia, with two Çatalhöyük images (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Stone Pages (Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi) - stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts in:
  - England
  - Ireland
  - Scotland
  - Wales
  - France
  - Italy
    plus
  - QuickTime VR Panoramic view movies
- Dolmens in the Netherlands (Hans Meijer)
- Megalithic Sites and Mounds, in the British Isles
- The Megalith Map, a resource for finding any stone circle or stone row in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
- Megalithic Visions (European megalithic culture)
- Images of Megalithic sites in the British Isles (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
  - England
  - Ireland
  - Isle of Man
  - Mainland Scotland
  - Scottish islands
  - Wales
- Images of Megalithic sites in Continental Europe (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
  - Bulgaria
  - Northern France
  - Mallorca
  - Romania
- Carnac
  - Le Ménec cromlech (see also the QTVR Panorama of the Ménec cromlech at the western end)
  - Kermario
  - Kerlescan (see also the QTVR Panorama of the Kerlescan alignments from the west)
  - Petit Ménec
- Megaliths in the Carnac Region, France (photographs by Stephen Miller)
  - Alignments
  - Standing Stones
  - The Forest
  - Menhirs
  - Dolmens
  - Interiors
  - Markings
- La Musée de Préhistoire à Carnac
- Stonehenge (English Heritage site)
- Stonehenge (Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe) with an additional link to:
  - Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge
- Henges: Engineering in Prehistory (João Caeiro Antunes, Aerospace Engineer)
- Stonehenge: A 3-D Ancient Wonder (use arrow keys to move around a computer-generated reconstruction)
- Stonehenge, England (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)
- Prehistoric Architecture (Stonehenge) (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
- Stonehenge, with a link to The Mystery of the Megaliths (through Mysterious Places, text and photography © Cliff Wassmann)
- Dating Stonehenge
- Prehistoric, Newgrange and Skara Brae (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Megalithia — Stone Circles, megaliths, prehistoric stones (Richard Mudhar)
  - Introduction to megalithic sites in the UK and Eire
  - Stonehenge
  - Avebury
  - Designs in Stone
  - Ireland
    - Newgrange
    - Lios Grange Stone Circle/Henge
    - Lissyviggeen Stone Circle
    - Kenmare Stone Circle
    - Eightercua Stone Row/Alignment
    - Ardgroom Stone Circle
    - Glantane East Stone Circle
    - Knocknakilla Stone Circle
- Skara Brae, Orkney Islands (Andy Burnham)
- Prehistoric Sites in the Orkney Islands, Scotland (through Orkneyjar: The Heritage of the Orkney Islands)
  - Skara Brae
  - Orkney's Chambered Tombs
  - Orkney's Standing Stones
- Archaeology Photographs (Scotland) by Charles Tait
  - Orkney Archaeology
  - Caithness Archaeology
  - Western Isles Archaeology
- Megalithic Passage Tombs in Ireland
  - Newgrange
  - Knowth
  - Dowth
  - Fourknocks
  - Loughcrew
  - Tara
- Newgrange
- Newgrange, County Meath (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)
- Newgrange, Bru na Boinne, County Meath
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