La grotte Chauvet Pont d'Arc, decouverte en 1994, contient un extraodinaire bestiaire (plus de 400 representations d'animaux) datant de 30.000 ans avant le present ...

Palaeolithic Art ...

Mike Morwood's World Rock Art Links2Go Rock Art Key Resource Undergraduate and post-graduate courses on rock art are taught both internally and externally in the Dept. of Arch. and Pal.UNE. Course enquiries should be directed to our Administrative Assistant. Other enquiries to : Dr. Mike Morwood. Updated: 18 June 2002 You are visitor number since Tuesday Sept 7, 1999 Visitors : June 96 - May 98 ...

Women in Prehistory The Venus of Willendorf Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe 1. DISCOVERY The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called Venus of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy in an Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria and now in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. The statuette was carved from a particular type of ...

Title Page Art and Human Evolution Horse carved from mammoth ivory Engraved baton of reindeer antler Pavlov fossil shell necklace Leaping Horse Head of a Woman Head of a Woman The Lady of Brassempouy The Sites of Paleolithic Art The Sites of Paleolithic Art View of Pyrenees Foothills Bison Licking an Insect Bite Stone Tools La Pileta Macaronis The Ages of Humankind Chart of the last million ...

Room 4 Human Prehistory: An Exhibition THE FIRST HUMAN CREATIONS The caves at Lascaux in France were discovered accidentally in 1940. The paintings in those caves are regarded as the most outstanding of all known prehistoric art. The Lascaux caverns had served as subterranean water channels, a few hundred to some 4, 000 feet long. Far inside these caverns the hunter-artists engraved and painted ...

The most ancient evidence of the production of art predates the generally accepted earliest dates for the appearance of modern humans.

Origine dell'Arte, nel Paleolitico, in Liguria e in Europa, Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, con apporti di tutte le discipline scientifiche.In italiano e inglese.Aggiornato ogni due mesi. Paleolithic Art origin, in Liguria (Italy) and in Europa, Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, with contributions of all the scientific disciplines. Both in italian and english. Updated every two months. ...

The Cave of Chauvet Pont d'Arc, On January 17th 1995 the French Minister for culture, Jacques Toubon announced an extraordinary discovery of a decorated cave in the Ardeche region in the south of France.