Introduction to Prehistoric Art | Art Trippin' Lecture Series (S2 - Episode 4)

In this video, Dr. Debin introduces us to some of the oldest known art in the world: cave paintings from the Paleolithic era.

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Featured Artworks:
00:33 - Bulls on Lascaux Ceiling, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
00:46 - Red Cow and First Chinese Horse, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
01:11 - The Hall of the Bulls, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
02:18 - Bison, c. 13,000 - 11,000 BCE, polychrome cave painting (Altamira Cave, Cantabria, Spain)
03:03 - Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), c. 7,300 BCE - 700 CE, cave painting (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)
03:07 - Deer with Nine-Pointed Antlers, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
03:08 - Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000 - 22,000 BCE, oolitic limestone (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
04:52 - Stonehenge, c. 3100 - 1600 BCE, sarsen and bluestone (Salisbury, United Kingdom)
05:22 - Bull from The Hall of the Bulls, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
05:28 - Limestone Funerary Relief, c. 325 - 300 BCE, limestone (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA)
05:34 - Venus of Laussel, c. 23,000 BCE, limestone (Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France)
05:38 - Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions, c. 645-635 BCE, gypsum (British Museum, London, United Kingdom)
05:46 - Two Bison, c. 15,000 - 10,000 BCE, clay (Le Tuc d’Audoubert cave, Ariege, France)
06:20 - Stone and Lintel from Karnak Temple Complex, c. 2000 - 30 BCE, limestone (Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt)
09:15 - Lion-Man, c. 38,000 - 40,000 BCE, mammoth ivory (Museum Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
09:18 - Human Figure, c. 6750-6250 BCE, plaster, painted and inlaid with bitumen (Louvre Museum, Paris, France)
09:23 - Bronze Age Teenage Egtved Girl’s Grave, c. 1370 BCE, woven wool fabric with bronze details (National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark)
10:44 - Acheulean Handaxe, c. 400,000 - 300,000 BCE, flint (Australian Institute of Archaeology, Victoria, Australia)
10:53 - Ostrich Shell Beads, c. 30,000 BCE, ostrich eggshell (University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
10:55 - Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head, c. 24,000 BCE, mammoth ivory (Anthropos Pavilion, Brno, Czech Republic)
11:18 - Venus of Willendorf, c. 24,000 - 22,000 BCE, oolitic limestone (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, c. 29,000 - 25,000 BCE, ceramic clay (Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic)
Venus of Hohle Fels, c. 39,000 BCE, mammoth ivory (Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren, Blaubeuren, Germany)
11:29 - Lions, c. 30,000 BCE, cave painting (Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France)
11:44 - Bison, c. 12,000 - 11,000 BCE, cave painting (Altamira Cave, Cantabria, Spain)
12:46 - Magdalenian Polychrome Bison, c. 12,000 - 11,000 BCE, polychrome cave painting (Altamira Cave, Cantabria, Spain)
12:50 - Man, Bison, and Bird, c. 15,000 - 13,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
14:07 - The Great Black Bull, c. 17,000 - 15,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)
14:18 - Spotted Horse and Negative Hand Prints, c. 22,000 BCE, cave painting (Pech Merle Cave, Cabrerets, France)
15:19 - Handprints, Animals, and Zig-Zags, c. 7,300 BCE - 700 CE, cave painting (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)
15:51 - Two Negative Handprints, c. 7,300 BCE - 700 CE, cave painting (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina)
19:10 - Panel of the Rhinos, c. 30,000 BCE, cave painting (Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France)
19:23 - Panel of Deer, Horses, and Bison, c. 30,000 BCE, cave painting (Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France)
20:04 - Woolly Rhinoceros, Man, Bison, and Bird, c. 15,000 - 13,000 BCE, cave painting (Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France)

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