Professor Mindy McAdams's presentation about Ice Age art and communications

1. Human Beginnings Week 2, Tuesday MMC 2265

2. Chauvet grotto, France, c. 30,000 B.C.E.

3. The last Ice Age ended about 10,000 years ago. Modern humans began to paint the interior of caves in France and Spain about 30,000 years ago. Stag, Lascaux cave

4. Lascaux cave, France, c. 20,000-15,000 B.C.E.

5. Cosquer cave, France, c. 20,000 B.C.E.

6. Lascaux cave, France, c. 20,000-15,000 B.C.E.

7. Major sites of cave art in Western Europe

8. Pech-Merle, France c. 14,500 B.C.E.

9. Hand prints from 27,000 years ago

10. One of very, very few depictions of a man. Lascaux cave, France, c. 20,000-15,000 B.C.E.

15. Carved wooly mammoth, about 2.5 in. long. Vogelherd, Germany, c. 30,000 B.C.E.

18. The “Venus of Willendorf” stands about 4.5 in. tall. At first thought to be the same age as the cave paintings at Lascaux, this statuette is much older – about 24,000-22,000 B.C.E. Found on a cliff terrace above the Danube River in Austria.

20. Human Beginnings Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida