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| “Chinese Horse,” Lascaux, Dordogne, France, c. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. |
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| “Mother goddess,” Tarxien, Malta, before 2500 B.C.E.(Neolithic) |
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| “Sleeping Lady,” from Hal Saflieni, before 2500 B.C. (Neolithic) |
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Bison with turned head, from La Madeleine, Tarn, France,
c. 11,000-9,000 B.C.E. |
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| Bison, Tuc d’Audoubert cave, Ariège, Dordogne, France, c. 13,000-8,000 B.C.E. |
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| Ceiling view, Altamira cave, Spain, c. 12,000 B.C.E. |
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| Hall of Running Bulls, Lascaux, Dordogne, France, c. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. |
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Kangaroo with Lightning Man, Nourlangie Rock, Kakadu National Park,
Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. |
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| Diagram of the Lascaux cave stystem. |
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Men and women hunting kangaroos, Unbalanya Hill, Arnhem Land, Northern
Territory, Australia, Rock painting. |
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| Reindeer, Lascaux, Dordogne, France, c. 15,000-13,000 B.C.E. |
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Saharan rock painting, Tassili, Algeria, Cattle or Pastoralist period,
5th-4th millennium, B.C.E. |
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| Standing Bison, Altamira cave, Spain, c. 12,000 B.C.E. |
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| Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, c. 2800-1500 B.C.E. |
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| Venus of Laussel, from Laussel, Dordogne, France, c. 25,000-23,000 B.C.E. |
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| Venus of Willendorf, from Willendorf, Austria, c. 25,000-21,000 B.C.E. |
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| Megalithic structures in which groups of menhirs are arranged to form circles or semi-circles. |
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| Chambers or enclosures consisting of two or more vertical stones supporting a large single stone. |
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| an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany. |
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| a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs. |
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| pertaining to, or characteristic of a transitional period of the Stone Age intermediate between the Paleolithic and the Neolithic periods, characterized by adaptation to a hunting, collecting, and fishing economy based on the use of forest, lakeside, and seashore environments; Epipaleolithic. |
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| a historic or prehistoric burial ground. |
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| a prehistoric structure consisting of two upright stones supporting a horizontal stone. |
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