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Palaeolithic Art and Culture Overview

The document discusses various examples of Palaeolithic art from the Aurignacian culture in Europe between 30000 to 26000 years ago, including figurines such as the Venus of Willendorf and cave paintings from sites such as Lascaux, Altamira, and Chauvet caves depicting animals like bison, horses and hand stencils.

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Palaeolithic Art and Culture Overview

The document discusses various examples of Palaeolithic art from the Aurignacian culture in Europe between 30000 to 26000 years ago, including figurines such as the Venus of Willendorf and cave paintings from sites such as Lascaux, Altamira, and Chauvet caves depicting animals like bison, horses and hand stencils.

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Palaeolithic

Art:

Aurignacian Culture:

Woolly Mammoth, c. 35.000 years old, Vogelherd Cave, Swabian Jura, Germany. Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren, Blauberen, Germany.
Vogelherd Horse, 32.000-35.000 BCE, Vogelherd Cave, southwest Germany. Museum Schloss Hohentübingen, Tübingen, Germany.



A- Venus of Galgenberg, Austria, also known as Stratzing Figurine, Natural History Museum, Austria. (30000 ya)
B- Venus of Hohle Fels (also known as the Venus of Schelklingen), 38.000 and 33.000 BCE, Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren, Blauberen, Germany.


Venus of Willendorf, c. 28.000 BCE – 25.000 BCE, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Venus of Vestonice, Oldest known work of terracotta sculpture in the world, c.26.000 BCE,
Moravian basin, Czech Republic. Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Venus of Brassempouy, Gravettian, c.25.000 BCE, France, Museum of National Antiquities, Saint-Germain-en-Lay, France.
Abbe Henri Breuil's tracing of "The Sorcerer" at the cave of Les Trois Freres


Dvije babe _lute “Neanderthal Flute” N.W. Slovenia. made from cave bear femur.

Flute from wing bone of Griffon vulture. Hohle Fels cave.


The ‘lion man’- Stadel Cave, S.W. Germany, 32,000 ya
Bas Relief of Solutrean Culture:
Roc de Sers- a rock shelter and sanctuary situated north of Gachedou, in the Charente, France.

Clashing Ibexes. Horse


Magdalenian period: Lascaux Caves, France (visit [Link])

Cave painting of a dun Horse
Man lying with a bird head and a bison.
Altamira Cave, Spain

Bison
Bison licking its side, La Madeliene rock shelter.
Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, St Germain-en-Laye, Paris, France. made of reindeer antler.
Grotte Cosquer, France.

Hand Stencil
Coa Valley, Portugal.

Engraved Ibex
Grotte de Chauvet (visit [Link])


Apollo II caves, Namibia

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