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Paleolithic Works:

 

Paleolithic
Abstract Figurine
c. 28,000-22,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

       

Paleolithic
Adduara Cave
c. 11000 BCE, Monte Pellegrino

 

Paleolithic
Altamira Cave
c. 16,500-14,500 BCE, Altamira

                               

Paleolithic
Altxerri Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE, Altxerri

   

Paleolithic
Antler Batons with Engraved Designs
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Antler Fragment with Deer Head
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Antler Plaque with Linear Engraving
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Aurochs from the Abri du Fourneau-du-Diable
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Barbed Harpoon
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

 

Paleolithic
Baume-Latrone Cave
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Sainte-Anastasie, Gard

 

Paleolithic
Bison Cow
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Zaraysk Museum of Art and History

 

Paleolithic
Bison with Turned Head
c. 12,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Bone and Antler Spear Points
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Bone and Antler Spear Points
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Bone Spatula with Ibex
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Museo Regional, Santander

 

Paleolithic
Bone with engraved Cervid Heads
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Bone with engraved Horse Head
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Bones incised with Linear Markings
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Chauvet Cave
c. 30,000-28,000 BCE, Chauvet Cave, Ard eche Gorge

                                                                           

Paleolithic
Combarelles Cave
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne

 

Paleolithic
Commarque Cave
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Sireuil, Dordogne

 

Paleolithic
Cosquer Cave
c. 18,000-16,500 BCE, Marseilles

                                   

Paleolithic
Cougnac Cave
c. 25,000-20,000 BCE, Cougnac

       

Paleolithic
Covaciella Cave
c. 15,000-10,000 BCE, Covaciella, Asturias

 

Paleolithic
Covalanas Cave
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria

   

Paleolithic
Cylinder Beads
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Decorated Baton
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Decorated Ocher
c. 79,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Decorated Plate
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Paleolithic
Drawing of a Bison Head on the Shaft of a Broken Baton
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, Musée d'Archéologie National, Saint Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Ekain Cave
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Deba

 

Paleolithic
El Castillo Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE, El Castillo

   

Paleolithic
Engraved Antler Fragment
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Engraved Antler Fragment
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Engraved Drawing of Two Deer
c. 12,000-10,000 BCE, Musée d'Archéologie National, Saint Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Engraving of Woman and Reindeer
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Fanny the Dancer
c. 30,000 BCE, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

 

Paleolithic
Female Figure
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Female Figure
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Female Figurine
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Female Figurine (Venus of Dolní Věstonice)
c. 28,000-22,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

       

Paleolithic
Female Figurine from Malt'a
c. 21,000 BCE, Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Female Head (Mona Lisa)
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

   

Paleolithic
Figure with an Open Vulva Dilated for Birth (La Polichinelle)
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Musée d'Archéologie National, Saint Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Fish Plaque
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Flute made from Vulture Bone
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Flying Swan Pendant
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Forked Ivory Pendant
c. 28,000-22,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

   

Paleolithic
Fossil Coral Pendant
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

 

Paleolithic
Foz Coa
c. 18,000 BCE, Coa Valley

         

Paleolithic
Gabillou Cave
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Sourzac, Dordogne

     

Paleolithic
Galloping Horse Depicted on a Baton
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Paleolithic
Grand Grotte of Saint-Front
c. 20,000-16,000 BCE, Domme, Dordogne

 

Paleolithic
Grasshopper and Birds engraved on Bone
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Hand-Axe
c. 62,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Harpoon with Auroch
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Head of a Lion
c. 38,000-28,000 BCE, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart

 

Paleolithic
Hooked End of a Spear Thrower Sculpted as a Mammoth
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Paleolithic
Horse
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Horse
c. 13,800-13,500 BCE, Mus&ecute;e Arch&ecute;ologique d'Arthous, Hastingues

 

Paleolithic
Horse Head
c. 15,000-10,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Horse Head
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Horse Head made from Antler
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Horse Pendant
c. 32,000 BCE, Institut fur Urgeschichte, Tubingen

 

Paleolithic
Human Figure (The Worshipper)
c. 40,000-38,000 BCE, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart

 

Paleolithic
Hunter of Laussel
c. 26,000-25,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Ibex Heads on a Baton Shaft
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, Mus&ecute;e Arch&ecute;ologique d'Arthous, Hastingues

 

Paleolithic
Ibex in Roc-aux-Sorciers Shelter
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Angles-sur-l'Anglin

 

Paleolithic
Imaginary Human-Animal Figure
30,000-28,000 BCE, University of Ferrara

 

Paleolithic
Interlocking Female Figurines from Avdeevo
c. 20,000 BCE, Moscow Ethnographic Museum, Moscow

     

Paleolithic
Ivory Fragment with Fish Patterns
c. 38,000-18,000 BCE, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Ivory Ring with Fish Tail Extension
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Kneeling Female Figure (Venus of Sireuil)
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

   

Paleolithic
La Mairie Cave
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Teyjat, Dordogne

 

Paleolithic
La Tête du Lion Cave
20,400-18,800 BCE, Bidon

 

Paleolithic
Lamp from Lascaux Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Lamp with Ibex Design
c. 15,000-13,000 BCE, La Mouthe Cave, Dordogne

   

Paleolithic
Lascaux Cave
c. 15000 - 10000 BCE, Lascaux

                                                                         

Paleolithic
Le Portel Cave
c. 15,000-10,000 BCE, Le Portel, Dordogne

   

Paleolithic
Le Tuc d'Audoubert Cave
c. 13,000 BCE, Photothèque des Musées de la Ville de Paris

   

Paleolithic
Leaf-Shaped Flint Point
c. 16,000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Paleolithic
Lion
c. 26,000-24,000 BCE, Brno Archaeological Institute, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Lion Engraving on Bone Fragment
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Lion-Human
c. 40,000 BCE, Ulmer Museum, Ulm

       

Paleolithic
Long-Necked Bird
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Male Figure from Brno
c. 28,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

   

Paleolithic
Mammoth
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Mammoth
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Mammoth Pendant with Incised Signs
c. 32,000 BCE, Institut fur Urgeschichte, Tubingen

 

Paleolithic
Mammoth-Bone Houses
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
Mask-Like Face
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Mayenne-Sciences Cave
c. 26,000-24,000 BCE, Mayenne

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Beads and Ivory Pendants from Malt’a
c. 21,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Fox Teeth and Beads, from Sungir
c. 23,000-20,000 BCE, Vladimir-Suzdal Regional Museum, Vladimir

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Incised Deer Teeth
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Necklace of Seashells and Bear and Lion Teeth
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Niaux Cave
c. 15,000 BCE, Niaux

           

Paleolithic
Nude Woman with Long Wavy Hair
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Ochre Palette and Crayons
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Painted Caves in the Area of Lascaux

 

Paleolithic
Painted Female Figurine
c. 21,000 BCE, Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg

   

Paleolithic
Pair-non-Pair Cave
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Prignac-et-Marcamps

 

Paleolithic
Peche-Merle Cave
25,000-15,000 BCE, Dordogne

   

Paleolithic
Pendant in the Form of a Miniature Female Figure
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Pendant with Concentric Circles
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Pendant, possibly Human Figure
c. 32,000-26,000 BCE, Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit

 

Paleolithic
Pierced and Engraved Baton
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton engraved with an Animal Head
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton Fragment with Lion Engraving
c. 12,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton from El Pendo Cave
c. 16,000-14,500 BCE, El Pendo

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton with Auroch Hunt
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton with Bison Head
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée Départemental de l'Airege, Foix

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Baton with Horses
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Pierced Ivory Disk from Sungir
c. 23,000-20,000 BCE, Vladimir-Suzdal Regional Museum, Vladimir

 

Paleolithic
Plaque with Bison and Humans
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Prehistoric Wall Painting Technique

   

Paleolithic
Reindeer Engraving
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Reindeer Head
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Rouffignac Cave
c. 15000 BCE, Rouffignac

       

Paleolithic
Salamander made from Reindeer Antler
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Salmon at Le Poisson Shelter
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Le Poisson Shelter, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac

 

Paleolithic
Sculpted Profile of a Woman
c. 20,000-10,000 BCE, Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar

 

Paleolithic
Sitting Bear Pendant
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Small Lion Man
40,000 BCE, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower in the form of a Bird
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower in the form of a Mammoth
c. 17,000-11,000 BCE, Laboratoire de Prehistoire de Carcassonne, Carcassonne

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Confronted Ibexes
c. 16,000-11,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

   

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Ibex
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Ibex or Deer
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Leaping Horse
c. 16,000-10,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Spear Thrower with Three Horse Heads
c. 16,000-8,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Spearheads from Lascaux Cave
c. 15000-10000 BCE

 

Paleolithic
The Swabian Eve (Venus of Hohle Fels)
c. 40,000-30,000 BCE, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

   

Paleolithic
Tall Woman
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg

 

Paleolithic
Torso of a Woman
c. 23,000 BCE, Archaeological Institute, Brno

   

Paleolithic
Trois-Frères Cave
c. 15,000-10,000 BCE, Montesquieu-Avantès

 

Paleolithic
Venus Impudique (Female Figurine)
c. 16,000-13,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

   

Paleolithic
Venus of Lespugue
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Musée de l'Homme, Paris

       

Paleolithic
Venus with the Gridlike Head
c. 26,000-25,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Vilhonneur Cave
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Les Garennes

 

Paleolithic
Water Bird in Flight or Diving
40,000 BCE, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

 

Paleolithic
Wolverine
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno

 

Paleolithic
Wolverine Drawing
c. 14,000-10,000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Paleolithic
Woman from Brassempouy
c. 30,000 BCE, Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

 

Paleolithic
Woman from Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf)
c. 24,000 BCE, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

   

Paleolithic
Woman Holding a Horn
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux

 

Paleolithic
Woman with Pierced Neck
c. 26,000-20,000 BCE, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

 

Paleolithic
Wooly Rhinoceros Head
c. 28,000-18,000 BCE, Moravská Galerie, Brno