Cengage : Gardner's Art Through the Ages 16th edition vol 1 : Chapter 1 Images

Left wall of the Hall of the Bulls in the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000 to 14,000 BCE. Largest bull 11 feet 6 inches long.

Human with feline head, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, ca. 40,000 to 35,000 BCE. Woolly mammoth ivory, 11 and 5/8 inches high. Ulmer Museum, Ulm.

Venus of Willendorf, Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000 to 25,000 BCE. Limestone, 4 and 1/4 inches high. Naturhistoriches Museum, Vienna.

Woman holding a bison horn, from Laussel, France, ca. 25,000 to 20,000 BCE. Painted limestone, 1 foot 6 inches high. Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux.

Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tec d'Audoubert, France, ca. 15,000 to 10,000 BCE. Clay, right bison 2 feet and 7/8 inches long.

Bison licking its flank, fragmentary atlatl, from La Madeleine, France, ca. 12,000 BCE. Reindeer antler, 4 and 1/8 inches long. Musée dArchéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave at Altamira, Spain, ca. 13,000 to 11,000 BCE. Standing bison 5 feet 2 and 1/2 inches long.

Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France, ca. 23,000 to 22,000 BCE. 11 feet 2 inches long.

Woolly rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France, ca. 16,000 to 14,000 BCE. Bison 3 feet 4 and 1/2 inches long.

Aurochs, horses, and woolly rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France, ca. 34,000 to 32,000 BCE. Right rhinoceros 3 feet 4 inches long.

T-shaped stone pillar with animal reliefs, from Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, ca. 9,000 BCE. Sanliurfa Museum, Sanliurfa.

Aerial view of Neolithic Jericho (looking east), ca. 8,000 to 7,000 BCE.

Human skull with restored features, from Jericho, ca. 7,200 to 6,700 BCE. Features modeled in plaster, painted, and inlaid with seashells. Life-size. Archaeological Museum, Amman.

Human figure, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, ca. 6,750 to 6,250 BCE. Plaster, painted and inlaid with bitumen, 3 feet 5 and 3/8 inches high. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Deer hunt, detail of a wall painting from level III, Çatal Höyük, Turkey, ca. 6,000 BCE. Museum of Anatolian Civilization, Ankara.

Main chamber with corbeled dome of the passage grave, Newgrange, Ireland, ca. 3,200 to 2,500 BCE.

Aerial view of the ruins of Hagar Qim (looking east), Malta, ca. 3,200 to 2,500 BCE.

Circle of trilithons (looking southwest), Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, ca. 2,550 to 1,600 BCE. Circle 97 feet in diameter; trilithons 24 inches high.

Landscape with volcanic eruption, from Çatal Höyük, Fresco, ca. 6150 BCE