PREHISTO

RIC
ART
 Prehistoric
• Art
Refers to the
global and
preliterate origins
of human artistic
achievements
 4 basic
types
Petroglyphs: cupules, rock carvings and
engravings
Pictographs: imagery, ideograms or
symbols, cave paintings
Prehistoric sculpture: small totemic
statuettes
Megalithic art: petroforms or any other
works associated with arrangements of stones
 PREHISTORIC
• parietal art which
PAINTINGS
involves the
application of color
pigments on the walls,
floors or ceilings of
Artworks that are applied to an
ancient
• Believed
immoveablerock to
rock shelters.
surfacehave
started around
 El Castillo Cave Paintings

World’s oldest cave Painting

Located at the rock shelter of el
castillo, spain

Dated at
39,000 b.c.
El Castillo Cave
Paintings
 Chauvet Cave Paintings

Situated near
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc in
the Ardèche region
of southerntoFrance
dated be
between 33,000-
Chauvet Cave
Paintings
 Prehistoric
Sculpture
 a form of mobiliary art
• Materials used for
sculpting were
Artworks that are portable
mammoth bone,
ivory, wood, and
stone such as
 Venus
of Berekhat Ram
• one of the oldest pieces
of prehistoric sculpture
known to archeology
• Created during the
Lower Paleolithic
period and has been
dated between
• Discovered on the Golan
230,000-700,000
Heights between Syria and
 Venus
of Brassempouy
• The First stone age
art to display facial
features; First Stone
age portrait
• Dated at about
23,000 years BC
• unearthed in 1892
at Brassempouy,
 PREHISTORIC
ARCHITECTURE
• The earliest known
architecture in human
history started in the
• Most
Upper of Paleolithic
the structures
Age
built were made
(40000-10000 of clay,
B.C.)
stone and featured
 stonehenge
Located on Salisbury Plain, England

built between 4000 to 5000

years ago
 hagar qim
temple
Megalithic complex in Fifla, Malta

A 5000-year-old temple built

between the Neolithic period,

3600 to 3000 B.C.