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Cave of Lascaux - http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
Information and a virtual tour of the cave from the French Ministry of Culture. |
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The Cave of Chauvet Pont-D'Arc - http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
Decorated Paleolithic cave in the Ardèche region of France. The Ministry of Culture describes its discovery, authentication and preservation. The context and research. Virtual tour. |
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Signs of Consciousness : Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics - http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/signcon.html
by J. A. Cheyne : from Paleo-Psychology |
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Ice Age Art - http://www.humanities-interactive.org/ancient/iceage/
An online exhibition of Ice Age art and symbol from the Texas Humanities Resource Center. Carved objects, including the Venus figure, and cave art of Western Europe. |
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Women in Prehistory: The Venus of Willendorf - http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfdiscovery.html
Illustrated essay by Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar College on this famous figure and the history of its discovery, with bibliography. |
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Cosquer Cave - http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/en/fr-cosqu1.htm
The French Ministry of Culture describes a Paleolithic art gallery in a cave that can be accessed only through a 175-metre tunnel beneath sea level. Photographs of the animal drawings and hand stencils that decorate it. |
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Palaeolithic Art - http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2_1.html
The State Hermitage Museum: illustrated collection highlights. Artifacts from the Caucasus, Crimea, Russian steppes, Siberia and Altai. |
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Chauvet Through the Eyes of a Sculptor - http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/
Sculptor John Robinson was invited to give an artist's view of the prehistoric art of the Cave of Chauvet Pont d'Arcby. The Bradshaw Foundation hosts his illustrated commentary. |
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First Human Creations - http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/prehis/prerm4.htm
A gallery of rock art from the caves at Lascaux in France. |
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Paleolithic Art Magazine - http://www.paleolithicartmagazine.org/
Promotes acknowledgment and interpretation of paleolithic art everywhere in the world, and of the origins of Man. In English and Italian. |
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Paleolithic Art of the Pyrenees - http://www.culture.fr/culture/app/eng/artprepy.htm
A gallery of artwork from the Magdalenian cultural horizon from the French Ministry of Culture. |
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The Dawn of Prehistoric Rock Art - http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/dawn.html
An article by James Q. Jacobs summarizing the earliest known rock art, with a focus on recently discovered painted caves in Paleolithic Europe, Grotto Cosquer and Grotto Chauvet. |
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Rock Engravings at Vermelhosa - http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3982/vermel1.html
Describes and discusses the importance of Paleolithic rock art in the Côa Valley, Portugal. |
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Entoptic Imagery in People and Their Art - http://home.comcast.net/~markk2000/thurston/thesis.html
Linda Thurston's Masters thesis explores entoptic imagery in Paleolithic cave art, and controversy regarding shamanism and trance states. Extensive bibliography. |
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Contemporary Approaches to World Rock Art - http://www.une.edu.au/Arch/ROCKART/MMRockArt.html
A comparative analysis of rock art created by Paleolithic cultures and historic foragers. |