The document provides a history of art from prehistoric times to the Neolithic period, beginning around 2.5 million BCE. It describes early artworks like cave paintings from 30,000 BCE and sculptures like the Venus of Willendorf. Rock carvings, pottery, and architecture developed through the Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, and Upper Paleolithic periods. During the Mesolithic period, ceramic art became more common. In the Neolithic, pottery and fixed structures like Skara Brae and Stonehenge emerged as new art forms.

1. History of Art School of Architecture Karpagam University

5. Cupule and meander petro glyph on a boulder at the Auditorium Cave, Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, India. (c.290,000-700,000 BCE) Rock Art from Bhimbetka - 7000 BCE

7. The Venus of Berekhat Ram Lower Palaeolithic period 230,000-700,000 BCE. Venus of Tan-Tan (200,000-500,000 BCE) Lower Palaeolithic period

8. Sketch of Cupules found on slab over tomb at La Ferrassie Cave Middle Palaeolithic period One of the engraved stones at Blombos dating from about 70,000 BCE - sub-Saharan Africa Blombos Cave Snail Beads (75,000 BCE)

9. These venus figurines , mostly only a few inches in height, depicted obese female figures with enlarged breasts, bellies, hips and thighs Upper Palaeolithic period Venus of Gagarino Venus of Dolni Vestonice (26,000 BCE) First work of ceramic art Venus of Monpazier (30,000 BCE) Venus of Laussel (23,000 BCE) First bas-relief sculpture. Venus of Lespugue (23,000 BCE)

10. Venus of Willendorf c. 24,000-22,000 BCE 4 3/8 inches (11.1 cm) high

11. Bison bull and cow, modeled in clay in the rotunda of the Tuc d'Audoubert, Ariege, France

14. Lion Panel Chauvet Cave, France

17. Lascaux, France, early period, 15,000-13,500 BC (Dun Horse)

18. Lascaux, France c.15,500 BCE

20. Bisons, from the Caves at Altamira, circa 15000 BC

21. Bison with turned head, from La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, ca. 12,000 B.C. A relief carving of a bison on a reindeer antler, approx. 4" long.

22. Northern Australian Aborigines cave art 40,000 BCE

23. Mesolithic period The Mesolithic is a transitional era between the hunter-gatherer culture of the Upper Palaeolithic, and the farming culture of the Neolithic. Artworks created during the Mesolithic period reflect the arrival of new living conditions and hunting Ceramic art was also developed, notably by the Jomon culture - an early highpoint of Japanese Art Chinese pottery begins during the Mesolithic period. example Cuevas de las Manos (Cave of the Hands) (c.9500 BCE) Paintings on Pachmari Hills (9000–3000 BCE) Thinker of Cernavoda (c.5,000 BCE)

24. Cueva de las Manos - Río Pinturas – Santa Cruz, Argentina Cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of human hands in the cave,

25. Head of a Woman Siberia) Carved in mammoth ivory, 3 inches long Malta, Central Siberia, Mesolithic The Hermitage, St. Petersburg ©Alexander Marshack

27. Skara Brae Scotland 3200 BC and 2200 BCE

28. Jiahu (ca. 7000–5700 B.C.) Six complete bone flutes excavated from Jiahu. Fragments of thirty flutes were discovered in the burials at Jiahu and six of these represent the earliest examples of playable musical instruments ever found. The flutes were carved from the wing bone of the red-crowned crane, with five to eight holes capable of producing varied sounds in a nearly accurate octave. The Jiahu archaeological site in eastern China.

29. Stonehenge – England - 3200 BCE

30. Male and female figures from Cernavoda, Romania ca. 3500 B.C.E.

31. Menhir Statue of a Woman , 2000BCE, Neolithic Ceramic-ware

32. Gansu, China, c. 3200 BCE

34. Carved ax head, Skara Brae, c. 3000 BCE Ain Ghazal, Jordan, c. 8500 BCE

35. Spherical vase from Dimini, Late Neolithic.