Prehistoric Art

Welcome to History Link 101's Prehistoric Art Page. Here you will find sites on Cave Paintings, Rock Carvings and much more. History Link 101 is a site developed for World History Classes, by a World History Teacher.

Cave Art Lesson Covers information about early cave paintings. Lesson has
bibliography, links for further study and follow up questions.

Cave Painting

    Cave of Lascaux Large site of Cave Art from France.
        Visual = 5 Content = 5    P1000

    Cave of Chauvet - Point D'Arch Cave Art from France.
        Visual = 5 Content = 5    P1010

    Pech Merel Site Map along with pictures of major paintings.
        Visual = 5 Content = 3    P1020

    Cosquer Cave France. This is an unusual cave in that the entrance is underwater on the coast of France.
        Visual = 5 Content = 4    P1030

    Links to Other French and Spanish Caves - Toward the bottom of the page (it's in French if you can read it) has links to "French" and "Espagne" sites. Even if you can't read the sites, they have good pictures. (You can translate pages using Babble Fish - Click here - Altavista Translation Page and enter the address you want to translate.)
        Visual = 5 Content = N/A    P1040

Rock Art

    Rock Carvings of Alps (8 Images) - 12 More Images Dated images of Rock art from Alps.
        Visual = 5 Content = 2    P1060

    Southwest United States Rock Art
        Visual = 5 Content = N/A    P1070

    Rock Carvings Western United States
        Visual = 5 Content = 3    P1080

    Petroglyphs and Rock Painting Western United States
        Visual = 5 Content = 3    P1090

    One Page Rock Carvings Pictures
         Visual = N/A Content = 5    P1110

    Links to Rock Art Site on North America.
         Visual = N/A Content = 5    P1120

    European Rock Art by AICT
        Visual = 5 Content = 5 P1140

    Links to Rock Art Sites over 200 sites.
        Visual = N/A Content = 5    P1150

Other Sites

    Prehistoric Art of Pyrenees by French Culture (Ministry) ??
        Visual = 5 Content = 4    P1180

    Ice Age Art Gallery Page is set up in Frames. Click on the pictures on the right and they will appear large in middle frame.
        Visual = 5 Content = N/A    P1190

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