My Fantasy Survey Text: Paleolithic Art
After describing the lesson plan for each period, I will compile a list of the works and figures that would structure my ideal survey text on that particular period. In most cases, I do not specialize in the field and offer my choices humbly. Please feel free to comment!
Gardner’s chapter on prehistoric art has 12 images and 1 map in the paleolithic section. I will adhere to this quantity of material. Since prehistoric art is not my speciality, I will be rather generic for material with which I have insufficient familiarity.
World Map of Sites with Prehistoric Rock Painting
Figure 1 Plan of the Chauvet Cave (30th-28th C. BCE)
Figure 2 North Wall of Hillaire Chamber of the Chauvet Cave
Figure 3 Panel of the Horses in the Hillaire Chamber
Figure 4 Reconstruction of the phases of the creation of the Panel of the Horses
Figure 5 The Lion Man (30-28th millennium BCE)
Figure 6 Venus of Willendorf (28-25th millennium BCE) from front, back, side (such as in Art Across Time)
Figure 7 Rhinoceros, Wounded Man, and Disemboweled Bison from the Cave at Lascaux (15-13th mil. BCE)
Figure 8 Contextualizing view of image in Figure 7
Figure 9 An example of Saharan Rock Art (5-4th millennium BCE)
Figure 10 Rock art from Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria (6-4th millennium BCE)
Figure 11 An example of the earliest Australian Rock Art
Figure 12 An example of prehistoric rock art in the Americas