Prehistoric art

Prehistoric Art & Culture
History of Stone Age: Sculpture, Cave Painting, Petroglyphs, Cupules: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic Periods: From 2.5 million BCE.

Prehistoric Art
Prehistoric people often represented their world- and perhaps their beliefs- through
visual images. Art emerged with the appearance and dispersion of fully modern people
through Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas.

Prehistoric art, in general, can be seen as the representation of a symbolic system that is an integral part of the culture that creates it. It is therefore not readily intelligible or accessible to other cultures.

Prehistoric Art
Art created before written history and frequently the only record of early cultures.
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Prehistoric Art - Art forms predating recorded history, such as Old, Middle, and New Stone Ages.
Pre-Columbian - Art created in the America's by native people that pre-dates the discovery of the new world ...

Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic
(2 million years ago-13,000 BC.)
Paleolithic or "Old Stone Age" is a term used to define the oldest period in the human history. The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic - lit. old stone from the Greek paleos=old and lithos=stone.

Prehistoric Art
For the history of art, Prehistory is the period that covers the evolution of man before writing including the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages
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Main article: Prehistoric art
The oldest known paintings are at the Grotte Chauvet in France, claimed by some historians to be about 32,000 years old.

In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate cultures (prehistory), beginning somewhere in very late geological history. ...

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Prehistoric Art
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Christopher L. C. E.

The real crowd-catcher was a collection of 51 pieces of prehistoric art, including an engraving of a mammoth on ivory, which had been found in 1864 by Lartet and Christy beneath a rocky overhang at La Madeleine near Les Eyzies.

Chris Whitcombe's Art History Resources on the Web: Prehistoric Art.
Also see font, glyph, heraldry, hieroglyphics, icon, iconomatic, ideogram, lettering, logo, petroglyph, text, type, typeface, and typography.

The Kircher Museum deals with prehistoric art, and contains the "Preneste Hoard.

prehistoric art Art created before written history. Often the only record of early cultures.
primary colors Those hues that cannot be produced by mixing other hues.

See also: Sculpture, Painting, Roman, Bronze, Greek