Head of a woman known as the "Venus of Brassempouy" – Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mamouth tusk
Brassempouy (Landes, Frances)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 10

Female statue known as the "Venus of Lespugue" – Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mamouth tusk
from Lespugue (Haute-Garonne, France)
Paris, Musée de l'Homme
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 12

Cro-Magnon cave painting from Lascaux, southern France (20,000 years ago)
Alex Greely/Alpha/FPG
Wallbank, p. 4

Horses – Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux Caves, France (c. 15,000 - 13,000 BC) paint on limestone
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 27

Bull, horses and stag – Magdalenian (c. 18,000 BC) detail of painted wall
Chamber of the Bulls, Cave of Lascaux (Dordogne, France)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 13

Bison – Altamira Cave, Sandtander, Spain (c. 12,000 BC) paint on limestone
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 12

Bison – Magdalenian (c. 18,000 BC) deer antler
from the cave of La Madeleine (Dordogne, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 10

Painted stones – Mesolithic(c. 10,000 BC) stone
from Mas-d'Azil (Ariège, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 11

Neolithic hunters – red ochre painted on rock
Séfar (Tassili-n'Ajjer, Algeria)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 12

Funerary chambers of the burial mound known as the "Barnenez Cairn"
Finistère, France(c. 4600 BC)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 15

Group of megaliths – Stonehenge (3100-1550 BC)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, pp. 14-15

Statue-Menhir – The Delphic Sibyl (c. 2500 BC) sandstone
from Serre Grand (Aveyron, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 14

Miles H. Hodges - 2011