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    Prehistoric art refers to early human artistic achievements before written histories. There were 4 main types: petroglyphs (rock carvings/engravings), pictographs (cave paintings), prehistoric sculpture (small statues), and megalithic art (stone arrangements). Some of the oldest known cave paintings, dated to over 30,000 years ago, can be found at El Castillo Cave in Spain and Chauvet Cave in France. Prehistoric sculptures included carved works in bone, ivory and stone, such as the Venus of Berekhat Ram estimated to be 230,000-700,000 years old. Early prehistoric architecture started over 40,000 years ago and included structures made of clay,

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    Prehistoric art refers to early human artistic achievements before written histories. There were 4 main types: petroglyphs (rock carvings/engravings), pictographs (cave paintings), prehistoric sculpture (small statues), and megalithic art (stone arrangements). Some of the oldest known cave paintings, dated to over 30,000 years ago, can be found at El Castillo Cave in Spain and Chauvet Cave in France. Prehistoric sculptures included carved works in bone, ivory and stone, such as the Venus of Berekhat Ram estimated to be 230,000-700,000 years old. Early prehistoric architecture started over 40,000 years ago and included structures made of clay,

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    Prehistoric art refers to early human artistic achievements before written histories. There were 4 main types: petroglyphs (rock carvings/engravings), pictographs (cave paintings), prehistoric sculpture (small statues), and megalithic art (stone arrangements). Some of the oldest known cave paintings, dated to over 30,000 years ago, can be found at El Castillo Cave in Spain and Chauvet Cave in France. Prehistoric sculptures included carved works in bone, ivory and stone, such as the Venus of Berekhat Ram estimated to be 230,000-700,000 years old. Early prehistoric architecture started over 40,000 years ago and included structures made of clay,

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    PREHISTO

    RIC
    ART
    Prehistoric
    • Art
    Refers to the
    global and
    preliterate origins
    of human artistic
    achievements
    4 basic
    types
    Petroglyphs: cupules, rock carvings and
    engravings
    Pictographs: imagery, ideograms or
    symbols, cave paintings
    Prehistoric sculpture: small totemic
    statuettes
    Megalithic art: petroforms or any other
    works associated with arrangements of stones
    PREHISTORIC
    • parietal art which
    PAINTINGS
    involves the
    application of color
    pigments on the walls,
    floors or ceilings of
    Artworks that are applied to an
    ancient
    • Believed
    immoveablerock to
    rock shelters.
    surfacehave
    started around
    El Castillo Cave Paintings

    World’s oldest cave Painting


    Located at the rock shelter of el
    castillo, spain

    Dated at
    39,000 b.c.
    El Castillo Cave
    Paintings
    Chauvet Cave Paintings

    Situated near
    Vallon-Pont-d’Arc in
    the Ardèche region
    of southerntoFrance
    dated be
    between 33,000-
    Chauvet Cave
    Paintings
    Prehistoric
    Sculpture
     a form of mobiliary art
    • Materials used for
    sculpting were
    Artworks that are portable
    mammoth bone,
    ivory, wood, and
    stone such as
    Venus
    of Berekhat Ram
    • one of the oldest pieces
    of prehistoric sculpture
    known to archeology
    • Created during the
    Lower Paleolithic
    period and has been
    dated between
    • Discovered on the Golan
    230,000-700,000
    Heights between Syria and
    Venus
    of Brassempouy
    • The First stone age
    art to display facial
    features; First Stone
    age portrait
    • Dated at about
    23,000 years BC
    • unearthed in 1892
    at Brassempouy,
    PREHISTORIC
    ARCHITECTURE
    • The earliest known
    architecture in human
    history started in the
    • Most
    Upper of Paleolithic
    the structures
    Age
    built were made
    (40000-10000 of clay,
    B.C.)
    stone and featured
    stonehenge
    Located on Salisbury Plain, England

    built between 4000 to 5000


    years ago
    hagar qim
    temple
    Megalithic complex in Fifla, Malta

    A 5000-year-old temple built

    between the Neolithic period,

    3600 to 3000 B.C.

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