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Neolithic Building Methods

 

Neolithic European
Newgrange
c. 3000-2500 BCE, New Grange

                                         

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

 

Neolithic European
Nuraghe Losa
c. 1300-700 BCE, Abbasanta

   

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

 

Neolithic European
Ormaig Rock Carvings
c. 3000-2000 BCE, Ormaig

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Painted Bowl from Tall-i-Bakun
c. 4000 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Paleolithic
Painted Caves in the Area of Lascaux

 

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

   

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Painted Footed Beaker
c. 3500 BCE, Tehran Museum, Tehran

 

Neolithic Anatolian
Painted Vase in the form of a Squatting Woman
c. 5200 BCE

 

Neolithic Anatolian
Painted Wall Relief of Leopards from Chatal Huyuk
c. 6000 BCE

 

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

 

Egyptian
Palette with Dog and Birds
c. 3300-3200 BCE, Musée Barbier-Muller, Geneva

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Pentre Ifan Dolmen
c. 3500 BCE, Pentre Ifan, Wales

 

Neolithic European
People and Animals
c. 4000-2000 BCE, Cogul, Lerida

 

Egyptian
Pesesh-Kef (Ritual Implement for the Opening of the Mouth)
c. 3300-3100 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Pierre Plates Dolmen
c. 3000-2500 BCE, Locmariaquer, Brittany

   

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

 

Neolithic Levantine
Plastered Skull
c. 7000-6000 BCE, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Neolithic European
Pot Stand
c. 4050-3900 BCE, Muzeul Judeţean Botoşani

 

Neolithic European
Poulnabrone Dolmen
3800-3200 BCE, Kilnaboy

     


Prehistoric Europe

   

Mesopotamian
Priest King
c. 3300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Neolithic European
Quoyness Chambered Cairn
c. 2,900 BCE, Sanday

 

Australian
Rainbow Serpent Rock
25,000-15,000 BCE, Arnhem Land

 

Neolithic European
Reclining Female Figure from Hal Saflieni
c. 3100 BCE, National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta

   

Neolithic European
Reconstruction of Lepenski Vir House/Shrine
c. 6000 BCE, Lepenski Vir

 

Neolithic European
Reconstruction of Neolithic lake Dwellings at Dispilio
Dispilio

 

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

 

Egyptian
Relief on the Mace of the Scorpion King
4000-3200 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Egyptian
Rhomboidal Palette
before 3100 BCE, Myers Museum, Windsor

 

European Bronze Age
The Rillaton Cup
c. 1700-1500 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Neolithic European
Ring of Brodgar
c. 2500-2000 BCE, Orkney Islands

         

Mesopotamian
Ritual Vase decorated with Animals in Relief
c. 3000 BC, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Neolithic European
Rollright Stones
c. 3000 BCE, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

   

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

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Samarra Ware Bowl with Antelopes
c. 5000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Samarra Ware Plate with Fish and Birds
c. 5000 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Scarlet Ware Vase from Khafaje
c. 2800 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Seated Female Figure from Hagar Qim
c. 3500-2500 BCE, National Museum, Valetta

 

Neolithic Levantine
Seated Woman
c. 6000-5000 BCE, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Neolithic European
Sesklo Stone Foundation House
c. 6,500 BCE, Sesklo

 

Iranian
Silhouette of a Whinnying Horse
c. 4000-3500 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Sitting Female Figure
c. 5000-3500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Neolithic
Sitting Female Figure
c. 6000-5000 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Neolithic European
Skara Brae
c. 3,100-2,600 BCE, Orkney Islands

       

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

 

Neolithic European
Squatting Female Figure
c. 3300-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Neolithic Anatolian
Standing Female Figure
c. 3300-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Neolithic European
Stantari Menhirs
c. 1500-1000 BCE, Tizzano, Corsica

 

Neolithic European
Stanton Drew Stones
c. 2800 BCE, Stanton Drew, Somerset

     

Egyptian
Statue of a Man
c. 4000-3500 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Egyptian
Stele with a Dog
c. 3200-3100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Neolithic European
Stemmed Cup
c. 4450-4200 BCE, Complexul Muzeal Judeţean Neamţ, Piatra Neamţ

 

Neolithic European
Stonehenge
c. 2,750-1,500 BCE, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire

                       

Neolithic European
Stones of Stenness
c. 3000 BCE, Orkney Islands

     

Neolithic European
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
c. 4,000-2,500 BCE, Avon

     

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

 

Neolithic European
Tarxien Temple Complex
c. 3500-2500 BCE, Tarxien

             

Neolithic European
Torhouse Stone Circle
c. 3000-2000 BCE, Newton Stewart

 

European Bronze Age
Torralba d'en Salord
c. 2000-1500 BCE, Alaior

 

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

   

Neolithic European
The Towie Carved Stone Ball
c. 3200-2500 BCE, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

 

Neolithic European
Trethevy Quoit
c. 3700-3300 BCE, Liskeard, Cornwall

 

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

 

Neolithic European
The Uffington White Horse
c. 1400 BCE, Oxfordshire

 

Neolithic European
Unstan Chamber Tomb
c. 3000 BCE, Clouston

 

Neolithic Mesopotamian
Vase in the form of a Porcupine
c. 4500 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Vessel from Franchthi Cave
c. 6,500 BCE

 

Neolithic European
Vessels
c. 3000-2000 BCE, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen

 

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

 

Neolithic European
Vinca bird goddess
c. 4000 BCE

 

Neolithic European
Vinca Female Figurine
c. 4500 BCE

 

Neolithic European
Vinca Mother and Child Figurine
c. 4000 BCE

 

Neolithic Anatolian
Wall Painting of Bull Hunt from Chatal Huyuk
c. 6000 BCE

 

Neolithic Anatolian
Wall Painting of Stag Hunt from Chatal Huyuk
c. 6000 BCE

 

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

 

Neolithic European
West Kennet Long Barrow
c. 2200 BCE, Avebury

     

Neolithic European
Wild Goat
c. 5000-4000 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

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

 

Neolithic European
Woodhenge
c. 2400-2100 BCE, Wiltshire

     

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

 

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