PREHISTORIC ART: General
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- Stone Age Art (through ArtLex)
- European Prehistoric Cultures (part of Before History: Prehistoric Artifacts in the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College)
- EuroPreArt, a data-base of European prehistoric art documentation with more than 800 records, 2700 images, 2800 reference titles (funded by the European Union, Education and Culture 2000 Programme)
- OriginsNet, Three Million Years of Prehistoric Art, Religion and Symbol in Human Evolution (James B. Harrod)
- Prehistoric Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- The Prehistoric Temples of Malta (Mike Gunther)
- Megalithic Temples of Malta (Daniel Cilia)
- Malta Heritage Sites, with links to
- Prehistoric, Malta (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Caves in Cantabria
- Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum) (through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
- Prehistoric Art (through the Bradshaw Foundation)
- British Prehistory in the Ancient History section of the BBC's History site
- 20,000 - 8000 B.C. (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
PREHISTORIC ART: Paleolithic
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- Accueil prehistoire Conseil Général de la Dordogne
- The Cave of Lascaux
- The Cave of Lascaux - Lascaux II (useful visitor information)
- Lascaux (ca. 1500 B.C.) (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
- The Cave of Chauvet - Pont-d'Arc, France
- Grotte Chauvet Archaeologically Dated (Dr. Christian Züchner, Institute of Prehistory, University Erlangen-Nürnberg), plus The Pont-d'Arc Venus: Aurignacian, Gravettian or Magdalenian?
- Chauvet Cave (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
- The Cosquer Cave, France (through Underwater Archaeology), with links to
- Prehistoric Cave of Rouffignac
- Le gisement du Roc-aux-Sorciers à Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne, France
- Centre de Préhistoire de Pech Merle, with links to
- La grotte de Gouy (in Normandy, near Rouen)
- La grotte de Cussac, Le Buisson de Cadouin (Dordogne)
- La frise sculptée de l'Abri Bourdois
- La grotte de Niaux
- Grotte de Niaux (useful visitor information)
- La grotte de Bédeilhac (painted Palaeolithic cave in Ariège, France), with links to
- Les Abris de Laugerie-Basse (English version), including a link to Art
- Cave Paintings (Mark Harden's Artchive), with links to images of:
- Paleoesthetique (Emmanuel Guy)
- Cave Paintings (through mystudios.com), with links to:
- Paintings, Engravings and Sculptures, (through Don's Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock, with links to
- Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria
- Las Cuevas de Altamira
- Cuevas Históricas: Altamira
- Altamira Cave (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
- Palaeolithic (part of Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum), through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
- Venus Figures from the Stone Age (through Don's Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock, with links to
- Venus of Willendorf (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
- The Venus of Willendorf (essay by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe)
- Seven Palaeolithic Figurines from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection
- Palaeolithic Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Palaeolithic Art Objects: The Franco-Cantabrian Region
- Prehistoric Art of the Pyrenees, an exhibition, April 3 - July 8 1996, Musée des Antiquités nationales- Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Castle), with a link to the:
- Signs of Consciousness: Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, an essay by J. A. Cheyne
- The Lionlady (found in the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Valley of Lone, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
- Lionheaded figurine
- Ice Age Art: An exhibition of Ice Age Art and Symbol, with links to:
PREHISTORIC ART: Mesolithic
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PREHISTORIC ART: Neolithic
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- Neolithic Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Life along the Danube 6500 years ago (through Great Archaeological Sites sites archéologique produced by the French Ministère de la culture et de la communication), with links to:
- The Neolithic Village of 'Ain Ghazal
- Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan (the 'Ain Ghazal statues) An exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Çatalhöyük, excavations at a Neolithic Anatolian Höyük
- Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (through the Science Museum of Minnesota), with a link to a Virtual Tour
- Anatolia, with two Çatalhöyük images (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Stone Pages (Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi) - stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts in:
- Dolmens in the Netherlands (Hans Meijer)
- Megalithic Sites and Mounds, in the British Isles
- The Megalith Map, a resource for finding any stone circle or stone row in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
- Megalithic Visions (European megalithic culture)
- Images of Megalithic sites in the British Isles (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- Images of Megalithic sites in Continental Europe (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- Carnac, with links to
- Megaliths in the Carnac Region, France (photographs by Stephen Miller)
- La Musée de Préhistoire à Carnac
- Stonehenge (English Heritage site)
- Stonehenge (Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe) with an additional link to:
- Henges: Engineering in Prehistory (João Caeiro Antunes, Aerospace Engineer)
- Stonehenge: A 3-D Ancient Wonder (use arrow keys to move around a computer-generated reconstruction)
- Stonehenge (Sandra Dimitrakopoulos, through The Discovery Channel Canada Online), with links to:
- Stonehenge, England (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)
- Prehistoric Architecture (Stonehenge) (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
- Stonehenge, with a link to The Mystery of the Megaliths (through Mysterious Places, text and photography © Cliff Wassmann)
- Dating Stonehenge
- Prehistoric, Newgrange and Skara Brae (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Megalithia (Richard Mudhar)
- Skara Brae, Orkney Islands (Andy Burnham)
- Prehistoric Sites in the Orkney Islands, Scotland (through Orkneyjar: The Heritage of the Orkney Islands), with links to
- Archaeology Photographs (Scotland) by Charles Tait
- Megalithic Passage Tombs in Ireland
- Newgrange
- Newgrange, County Meath (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)
- Newgrange, Bru na Boinne, County Meath
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