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[https://archive.org/details/prehistoricartsy0000whit by White, Randall, 1952- INTERNET ARCHIVE]

"In Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind, anthropologist Randall White presents a survey of prehistoric objects and images from around the world, from the first dramatic explosion of symbolic representation that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago, to the creations of peoples whose lives and outlook remained untouched by modern civilization as recently as the early twentieth century.

=====Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures=====

[https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/cave-art-discovering-prehistoric-humans-through-pictures by EDSITEment]

In this lesson, students travel to the past to explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux (France) and the Blombos Cave (South Africa), students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors and representations of things we recognize: they are also a way of communicating beliefs and ideas.

=====Japanese Prehistoric Art=====

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Prehistoric_Art by WIKIPEDIA]

The Jōmon people are generally said to have been the first settlers of Japan. Nomadic hunter-gatherers who later practiced organized farming and built cities, the Jōmon people are named for the "cord-markings", impressions made with rope, found as decorations on pottery of this time, a term which was first applied to the pottery, and the culture, by American Edward Sylvester Morse. Jōmon pottery is said by many scholars to be the oldest yet discovered in the world.[2]

=====Rock on! Prehistoric art dominates Unesco's 26 new World Heritage Sites=====

[https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/28/unesco-new-world-heritage-sites-prehistoric-art by Elena Goukassian 28/7/25 THE ART NEWSPAPER]

During Unesco’s annual World Heritage Committee meeting earlier this month in Paris, the international body voted to inscribe 26 new sites onto its list (21 cultural, four natural and one mixed). Four of these are in Africa, while about a third of the total represent prehistoric sites. Unesco also removed three sites from its World Heritage in Danger list during the session, which came to a close on 16 July.

=====Palaeolithic paintings. Evolution of prehistoric cave art=====

[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11586348/ by H Valladas 10/01 NIH]

Sophisticated examples of European palaeolithic parietal art can be seen in the caves of Altamira, Lascaux and Niaux near the Pyrenees, which date to the Magdalenian period (12,000-17,000 years ago), but paintings of comparable skill and complexity were created much earlier, some possibly more than 30,000 years ago. We have derived new radiocarbon dates for the drawings that decorate the Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, France, which confirm that even 30,000 years ago Aurignacian artists, already known as accomplished carvers, could create masterpieces comparable to the best Magdalenian art. Prehistorians, who have traditionally interpreted the evolution of prehistoric art as a steady progression from simple to more complex representations, may have to reconsider existing theories of the origins of art.

=====The prehistory center=====

[https://www.pechmerle.com/the-prehistory-center/the-pech-merle-cave/prehistoric-art/1000/ by Pech Merle]

More than 70 animal pictures interact with the relief of the rock, colours and light. The mammoth is the most frequently represented animal, with 28 examples. The only representation of a bear is a strikingly realistic engraving done with a flint tool.

=====What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human Life=====

[https://www.history.com/articles/prehistoric-cave-paintings-early-humans by Becky Little 5/10/21 HISTORY]

The oldest known prehistoric art wasn't created in a cave. Drawn on a rock face in South Africa 73,000 years ago, it predates any known cave art. However, caves themselves help to protect and preserve the art on their walls, making them rich historical records for archaeologists to study. And because humans added to cave art over time, many have layers—depicting an evolution in artistic expression.

=====Category:Prehistoric art=====

[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Prehistoric_art by WIKIMEDIA COMMONS]

Art made in prehistoric times. For later artworks depicting prehistoric scenes, see Category:Prehistory in art.

=====The Cambridge illustrated history of prehistoric art=====

[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeillustr00bahn_0 by Paul G. Bahn 1988 INTERNET ARCHIVE]

=====Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa=====

[https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2947 by MoMA]

“That an institution devoted to the most recent in art should concern itself with the most ancient may seem something of a paradox,” MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wrote in his preface to the catalogue for Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa. Yet, for Barr, this past had already influenced modern art, and could potentially offer museum visitors a prehistoric pedigree for it.

=====Introduction to Prehistoric Art=====

[https://viva.pressbooks.pub/arthistory/chapter/introduction-to-prehistoric-art/ by VIVA]

People have been making art for at least 100,000 years. Prehistoric art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.

The term Prehistory refers to all of human history that precedes the invention of writing systems c. 3100 BCE and the keeping of written records, and it is an immensely long period of time, some ten million years according to current theories. For the purposes of an art history survey, we split our study of Prehistory into parts of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.

=====The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making=====

[https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32825 by Open Access]

Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for the individual and for the group are also addressed by means of archaeological finds from Stone the Iron Age in Central Europe.

=====Moon Calendars in Prehistoric Art – ‘Meaning’ in Art?=====

[https://www.artists-atelier.com/moon-calendars-in-prehistoric-art-meaning-in-art/ by Cope]

I took a photo of this prehistoric artifact at the Museum of Pech-Merle this spring, when they had an exhibition about the stars & prehistory. Regrettably I didn’t get the provenance (I think it might be a find from the Castel Merle grotte). It’s a ‘mobile’ portable artifact, which some interpret as a moon calendar . The moon has a 29 day cycle so observe that there could be 14 notches on the first row depending on what one counts, & that maybe the deviation in row two into a circle rather than a row, was meant to be indicative of the disappearing or empty moon?

=====Prehistoric art=====

[https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/prehistoric-art-5538938/5538938 by Melissa Hanes]

The earliest known artists were Cro-Magnon peoples from 30,000 BCE who lived in caves and hunted animals.

=====Focus on Cave Painting, Lascaux=====

[https://libguides.com.edu/ArtPrehistoric by COM Library]

Art that predates written records. The history of the fine arts – painting, engraving, and sculpture – begins around 40000 BC in the Palaeolithic period (Old Stone Age). The oldest known rock engravings are in Australia, but within the next 30,000 years artoccurs on every continent.

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 [https://archive.org/details/prehistoricartsy0000whit by White, Randall, 1952- INTERNET ARCHIVE]
   "In Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind, anthropologist Randall White presents a survey of prehistoric objects and images from around the world, from the first dramatic explosion of symbolic representation that occurred approximately 40,000 years ago, to the creations of peoples whose lives and outlook remained untouched by modern civilization as recently as the early twentieth century.
+=====Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures=====
+[https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/cave-art-discovering-prehistoric-humans-through-pictures by EDSITEment]
+ In this lesson, students travel to the past to explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux (France) and the Blombos Cave (South Africa), students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors and representations of things we recognize: they are also a way of communicating beliefs and ideas.
+=====Japanese Prehistoric Art=====
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Prehistoric_Art by WIKIPEDIA]
+ The Jōmon people are generally said to have been the first settlers of Japan. Nomadic hunter-gatherers who later practiced organized farming and built cities, the Jōmon people are named for the "cord-markings", impressions made with rope, found as decorations on pottery of this time, a term which was first applied to the pottery, and the culture, by American Edward Sylvester Morse. Jōmon pottery is said by many scholars to be the oldest yet discovered in the world.[2]
+=====Rock on! Prehistoric art dominates Unesco's 26 new World Heritage Sites=====
+[https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/28/unesco-new-world-heritage-sites-prehistoric-art by Elena Goukassian 28/7/25 THE ART NEWSPAPER]
+ During Unesco’s annual World Heritage Committee meeting earlier this month in Paris, the international body voted to inscribe 26 new sites onto its list (21 cultural, four natural and one mixed). Four of these are in Africa, while about a third of the total represent prehistoric sites. Unesco also removed three sites from its World Heritage in Danger list during the session, which came to a close on 16 July.
+=====Palaeolithic paintings. Evolution of prehistoric cave art=====
+[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11586348/ by H Valladas  10/01 NIH]
+ Sophisticated examples of European palaeolithic parietal art can be seen in the caves of Altamira, Lascaux and Niaux near the Pyrenees, which date to the Magdalenian period (12,000-17,000 years ago), but paintings of comparable skill and complexity were created much earlier, some possibly more than 30,000 years ago. We have derived new radiocarbon dates for the drawings that decorate the Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, France, which confirm that even 30,000 years ago Aurignacian artists, already known as accomplished carvers, could create masterpieces comparable to the best Magdalenian art. Prehistorians, who have traditionally interpreted the evolution of prehistoric art as a steady progression from simple to more complex representations, may have to reconsider existing theories of the origins of art.
+=====The prehistory center=====
+[https://www.pechmerle.com/the-prehistory-center/the-pech-merle-cave/prehistoric-art/1000/ by Pech Merle]
+ More than 70 animal pictures interact with the relief of the rock, colours and light. The mammoth is the most frequently represented animal, with 28 examples. The only representation of a bear is a strikingly realistic engraving done with a flint tool.
+=====What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human Life=====
+[https://www.history.com/articles/prehistoric-cave-paintings-early-humans by Becky Little 5/10/21 HISTORY]
+ The oldest known prehistoric art wasn't created in a cave. Drawn on a rock face in South Africa 73,000 years ago, it predates any known cave art. However, caves themselves help to protect and preserve the art on their walls, making them rich historical records for archaeologists to study. And because humans added to cave art over time, many have layers—depicting an evolution in artistic expression.
+=====Category:Prehistoric art=====
+[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Prehistoric_art by WIKIMEDIA COMMONS]
+  Art made in prehistoric times. For later artworks depicting prehistoric scenes, see Category:Prehistory in art.
+=====The Cambridge illustrated history of prehistoric art=====
+[https://archive.org/details/cambridgeillustr00bahn_0 by Paul G. Bahn 1988 INTERNET ARCHIVE]
+=====Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa=====
+[https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2947 by MoMA]
+ “That an institution devoted to the most recent in art should concern itself with the most ancient may seem something of a paradox,” MoMA’s founding director Alfred H. Barr, Jr., wrote in his preface to the catalogue for Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa. Yet, for Barr, this past had already influenced modern art, and could potentially offer museum visitors a prehistoric pedigree for it.
+=====Introduction to Prehistoric Art=====
+[https://viva.pressbooks.pub/arthistory/chapter/introduction-to-prehistoric-art/ by VIVA]
+ People have been making art for at least 100,000 years. Prehistoric art illustrates early human creativity through small portable objects, cave paintings, and early sculpture and architecture.
+The term Prehistory refers to all of human history that precedes the invention of writing systems c. 3100 BCE and the keeping of written records, and it is an immensely long period of time, some ten million years according to current theories. For the purposes of an art history survey, we split our study of Prehistory into parts of the Stone Age: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.
+=====The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making=====
+[https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32825 by Open Access]
+ Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious. Textile crafts not only produced essential goods for everyday use, most notably clothing, but also utilitarian objects as well as representative and luxury items. Prehistoric clothing and their role in identity creation for the individual and for the group are also addressed by means of archaeological finds from Stone the Iron Age in Central Europe.
+=====Moon Calendars in Prehistoric Art – ‘Meaning’ in Art?=====
+[https://www.artists-atelier.com/moon-calendars-in-prehistoric-art-meaning-in-art/ by Cope]
+ I took a photo of this prehistoric artifact at the Museum of Pech-Merle this spring, when they had an exhibition about the stars & prehistory. Regrettably I didn’t get the provenance (I think it might be a find from the Castel Merle grotte). It’s a ‘mobile’ portable artifact, which some interpret as a moon calendar . The moon has a 29 day cycle so observe that there could be 14 notches on the first row depending on what one counts, & that maybe the deviation in row two into a circle rather than a row, was meant to be indicative of the disappearing or empty moon?
+=====Prehistoric art=====
+[https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/prehistoric-art-5538938/5538938 by Melissa Hanes]
+ The earliest known artists were Cro-Magnon peoples from 30,000 BCE who lived in caves and hunted animals.
+=====Focus on Cave Painting, Lascaux=====
+[https://libguides.com.edu/ArtPrehistoric by COM Library]
+ Art that predates written records. The history of the fine arts – painting, engraving, and sculpture – begins around 40000 BC in the Palaeolithic period (Old Stone Age). The oldest known rock engravings are in Australia, but within the next 30,000 years artoccurs on every continent.