Pre-historic Art.

Timeline | Pre-historic Art

Art unfolds across time and cultural traces.
To read art is to follow its context with care.

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Paleolithic Era

30,000 BC － 10,000 BC

Rock paintings, petroglyphs, primitive sculptures, cave paintings and sketches, Altamira Cave Paintings, Lascaux Cave Paintings, Venus of Willendorf.

Mesolithic Era

10,000 BC － 3,000 BC

Rock paintings, primitive sculptures

Neolithic Era

8,000 BC － 3,000 BC

Megalithic art, pottery art, Stonehenge, Carnac stones, Seated female, Bowl fragment.

Nazca lines

500 BC － 500

Enormous geoglyphs etched into Peru’s Sechura Desert, spanning 400 to 1100 meters in width. Created with simple lines, they depict animals like spiders, whales, monkeys, and abstract geometric forms.

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