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Concept

Art, Prehistoric

Images

  • M0008769: A hind rampant: cave painting, c.20,000 BC
  • Initiation? ceremony, Magdalenian. Nine partially clothed women and one young man.
  • Sculptures of two oxen carved in sandstone in the Museum of Les Eyzies in France. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • M0008769: A hind rampant: cave painting, c.20,000 BC
  • Bushman painting showing lion hunt, South Africa.
All images (1)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0011845/M0011845EA/M0011845EB: Photograph of a cast of a carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, from the Magdalenian peoples in the Upper Palaeolithic period

    | Date: 1951 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/47
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Sculptures of two oxen carved in sandstone in the Museum of Les Eyzies in France. Reproduction of a photograph.

    | Reference: 40070i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008769: A hind rampant: cave painting, c.20,000 BC

    | Date: January 1943 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/76/78
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Animals into art / edited by Howard Morphy.

    | Date: 1988
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Bushman painting showing lion hunt, South Africa.

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