Title: Prehistoric Art
1Prehistoric Art
2Left Prehistoric EuropeRight Left section of
the Lion Panel, Chauvet Cave,Vallon Pont dArc,
Ardeche gorge, France, 31,000-21,000 BC (1.3)
3Spotted Horse from Pech-Merle 22,000-15,000 BC
4Pech-Merle cave
5Altamira Cave, Altamira, Spain
6Left Prehistoric Europe Right Map of Lascaux,
15,000-13,000 BC
7Top Map of LascauxBottom Hall of the Bulls,
Lascaux
8Man with birds head, rhinoceros, and
disemboweled bison, Lascaux
9Left Hall of the Bulls, LascauxRight A
Reindeer from Lascaux
10Left Bison (femaleness) from Altamira
12,000-11,000 BC Right Spotted Horse (Maleness)
from Pech-Merle
11Right Chinese Horse, and geometric symbol,
Lascaux cave, France, c. 13,000 BC (14.1)
12Left Bison Spear Thrower, La Madeleine, ca.
12,000 BCRight Venus of Willendorf, ca.
23,000 BC, limestone, height 4 3/8 in. (14.2)
13Left Venus of Willendorf, side viewRight
Venus of Laussel, ca. 25,000-20,000 BC
14Left Tower of JerichoRight Skull with plaster
features, from Jericho
15Left Reconstruction of Catal Huyuk 6000-5900 BC
Right Goddess giving birth, 6500-5700 BC
16City with Volcanic Eruption in the Background
17Near Eastern Art
18Map of the Ancient Near East
19White temple and ziggurat, Uruk ca. 3200-3000
BCLeft PlanRight side view
20Ziggurat at Ur c. 2100 BC (modern reconstruction)
(14.4)
21Left Head of the Goddess Inanna, from
UrukRight Alabaster Vase (the Warka Vase)
from Uruk Both 3500-3000 BC
22Left Tell Asmar Figurines from the Abu Temple,
ca. 2700 BCRight close-up of face of one
figurine
23Standard of Ur from Royal Cemetery c. 2600 BC
(both sides)
24Bull-headed lyre, from Royal Cemetery at Ur c.
2600 BC
25Details of Bull-headed lyre
26Head of an Akkadian Ruler (perhaps Sargon I or
his grandson Naram-Sin) from Nineveh c. 2250-2200
BC (14.6)
27Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, 2254-2218 BC
28Gudea, ruler of Sumer, c. 2100 BC
29Left Plan of the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur
Sharrukin Right The Lamassu, c. 720-705 BC
(14.7)
30City attacked with battering ram and archers
pursuing enemies, from the Palace of King
Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud
31Ashurbanipal II hunting Lions, Nineveh, c.
645-640 BC (14.8)