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  2. List of Stone Age art - Wikipedia

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    This is a descriptive list of Stone Age art, the period of prehistory characterised by the widespread use of stone tools. This article contains, by sheer volume of the artwork discovered, a very incomplete list of the works of the painters, sculptors, and other artists who created what is now called prehistoric art.

  3. Rock art - Wikipedia

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    In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. A high proportion of surviving historic and prehistoric rock art is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type also may be called cave art or parietal art. A global phenomenon, rock art is found in many culturally ...

  4. Cave painting - Wikipedia

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    Much of the rock art sites are found together with evidence of prehistoric stone tools, suggesting that the art could predate the widely presumed pastoralist and domestication events that occurred 5,000– 4,000 years ago. [66] [67] In 2002, a French archaeological team discovered the Laas Geel cave paintings on the outskirts of Hargeisa in ...

  5. Art of the Upper Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    Art of the European Upper Paleolithic includes rock and cave painting, jewelry, [12] [13] drawing, carving, engraving and sculpture in clay, bone, antler, [14] stone [15] and ivory, such as the Venus figurines, and musical instruments such as flutes. Decoration was also made on functional tools, such as spear throwers, perforated batons and lamps.

  6. Kondoa Rock-Art Sites - Wikipedia

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    The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites or Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania. The Kondoa region was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006 because of its impressive collection of rock art. [3] These sites were named national monuments in 1937 by the Tanzania Antiquities Department. [4]

  7. Rock carvings in Central Norway - Wikipedia

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    The Bardal rock carvings contains images from both of the rock carving traditions.. Scandinavian rock art comprise two categories. The first type dates to the Stone Age (in Norway from between 8000-1800 BCE), and usually depicts mammals such as elk, red deer and reindeer, but also brown bears, whales and porpoises.

  8. Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin - Wikipedia

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    The group of over 700 sites of prehistoric Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, also known as Levantine art, were collectively declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. The sites are in the eastern part of Spain and contain rock art dating to the Upper Paleolithic or (more likely) Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age .

  9. Rock art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Rock art paintings of aurochs at the Upper Palaeolithic cave site of Lascaux in southwestern France. Rock art has been produced in Europe since the Upper Palaeolithic period through to recent centuries. It is found in all of the major regions of the continent. [1] One of the most famous examples of parietal art is the Grotte Chauvet in France. [2]