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Apollo 11 stones.

Namibia.

c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E.

Charcoal on stone.

Great Hall of the Bulls.

Lascaux, France.

15,000–13,000 B.C.E.

Rock painting

Camelid sacrum

Tequixquiac, central Mexico.

14,000–7000 B.C.E.

Bone

Running horned woman.

Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria.

6000–4000 B.C.E.

Pigment on rock.

5. Beaker with ibex motifs. Susa, Iran. 4200–3500 B.C.E. Painted terra cotta.

6. Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian Peninsula. Fourth millennium B.C.E. Sandstone.

7. Jade cong. Liangzhu, China. 3300–2200 B.C.E. Carved jade.

8. Stonehenge. Wiltshire, UK. Neolithic Europe. c. 2500–1600 B.C.E. Sandstone.

9. The Ambum Stone. Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. c. 1500 B.C.E. Greywacke.

10. Tlatilco female figurine. Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco. 1200–900 B.C.E. Ceramic.

11. Terra cotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands. 1000 B.C.E. Terra cotta (incised)

12. White Temple and its ziggurat. Uruk (Warka, Iraq). Sumerian. 3500–3000 B.C.E. Mud brick.

13. Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000–2920 B.C.E. Greywacke.

14. Statues of votive figures, Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, Iraq). Sumerian. c. 2700 BC. Gypsum 

15. Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620–2500 BC Painted limestone.