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Pre-Historic Arts

(Paintings, Sculptures &Architectures

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Pre-historic art is classifed into

three periods such as:

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age

!esolithic (!iddle Stone Age"eolithic ("e# Stone Age


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Pre-historic art is o$ interest notonly to the art historians %ut alsoto archeologist and

anthropologist, $or #ho the artis only one clue-along #ith$ossils, pollens and other fnds toan understanding o$ early

huan li$e and culture'


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heir paintings #ere $ound insidethe ca)es #hich ay ha)e %eentheir #ay o$ counicating #ith

each other' *t ay also %e $orreligious or cereonial purposes'

Prehistoric dra#ings o$ anials

#ere usually correct inproportion'

Pre-Historic Painting


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+a)e o$

ascau


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+a)e o$ ascau, 1.///-1////B'+' 0 Stone age

he doinant $eatures in the painting#ere large anials nati)e in the region' *t#as disco)ered on 1 Septe%er 123/

and gi)en statutory historic onuentprotection' he painting has nearly ,///fgures coposed ainly o$ anial,huan fgures and a%stract design'

Soe sections ha)e %een identifedinside the ca)e such as: he Great Hall o$the Bulls, he ateral Passage, he sha$to$ the 4ead !an, he cha%er o$

engra)ing, the Painted Gallery and he


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Pre-Historic Sculptures

!aterials used in sculptures )aryaccording to region and locality'

Archeologists %elie)ed that their

sculptures is a result o$ naturalerosion and not o$ huan artistry'

5re6uently car)ing ay ha)e

ethodological or religioussignifcance'


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7enus o$ 8illendor$


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7enus o$ 8illendor$9,/// B'+' 0 .,/// B'+'

*t is car)ed $ro liestone #ithecessi)ely hea)y %reast and

a%doen';sed as char to ensure 5ertility'


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7enus o$ Brassepouy


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7enus o$ Brassepouy

A sculpture o$ a lady #ith a hood'

*t is a $ragentary i)ory fgurine

$ro the ;pper Paleolithic ra therealistically represents the huan$ace and hairstyle'


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Pre-Historic Architecture

!an has de)eloped a $or o$architecture %ased on megaliths (a %igroc


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hree ain types o$ !egalithStones:

!enhir

a huge stone standing )ertically

on the ground, usually standingin the iddle o$ the feld orarranged in ro#s'


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!anhir


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4olens the #ord 4olen originated $ro

the epression taolmaen, #hich

eans >stone ta%le?' these structures are in a $or o$

ta%le consisting o$ t#ohugestanding stones supportinga hori@ontal giant stone'

it is %elie)ed that it ser)ed asgra)e or as an altar'


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4olens


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+rolech A Brythonic #ord #here >cro?

eans %ent or cur)ed and >llech?

#hich eans sla% or agstones' iteraly it is a circle o$ standing

stones'


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Documents

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