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Prehistory


Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.



5 subcategories
Bronze Age

BRONZE AGE

Celtic

CELTIC

Iron Age

IRON AGE

Neolithic (Young Stone Age)

NEOLITHIC (YOUNG STONE AGE)

Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age)

PALAEOLITHIC (OLD STONE AGE)

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Clay jar with red-fired decoration, from Ban Chiang, north-eastern Thailand, 1st millennium BC. Neolithic cultures based on agriculture and the use of stone tools appeared throughout mainland South-east Asia between 4000 BC and 1000 BC. Bronze technology became widespread in the northern part during the second millennium BC and iron after 500 BC. Elaborately decorated pots such as this one were produced in the first millennium BC. A great variety of decorative motifs feature on this pottery including the red spiral patterns that densely cover the surface of this pot. These are similar to those found on contemporary pottery in southern China. OA, 1974.6-17.1.
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Clay jar with red-fired decoration, from Ban Chiang, north-eastern Thailand, 1st...

Grand Conventional Festival of the Britons, Stonehenge. From "The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands" by Samuel Rush Meyrick and Charles Hamilton Smith. Etching; 1815.
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Grand Conventional Festival of the Britons, Stonehenge. From "The Costume of th...

Greek ceramic kantharos with black glaze. 4th century BCE. From a kurgan (tumulus) near Akimovka, Zaporizhia region, Ukraine.
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Greek ceramic kantharos with black glaze. 4th century BCE. From a kurgan (tumulu...

Cast of the skull-cap of the Peking Man excavated in 1966 at Chou-K'ou-Tien, China. Middle Pleistocene (Diluvium). Height: 11.9 cm
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Cast of the skull-cap of the Peking Man excavated in 1966 at Cho...

Cast of skull and lower jaw-bone of the Lan-T'ien ape-man found in excavations at Lan-T'ien, Shensi, China, in 1963 and 1964. Height: 18 cm
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Cast of skull and lower jaw-bone of the Lan-T'ien ape-man found...

Perforated stone axe from the mound of Nanking. Excavated 1956 in Pei-Yin-Yang-Ying, Kiang-Sou, China. Seize: 15 cm
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Perforated stone axe from the mound of Nankin...

Fish spear and arrowhead (late 4th or 3rd millenium BCE). Excavated 1960 at Wu-Chiang, Kiang-Sou, China. Length: 16.5 cm
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Fish spear and arrowhead (late 4th or 3rd milleni...

A whinnying horse. Head, bone figure from Mas d'Aril, Ariege, France. Magdalenian, early Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic). Length 4 cm
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A whinnying horse. Head, bone figure from Mas d'Aril, Ariege,...

Bison licking its back. Bone figure from La Madeleine, Dordogne, France. Magdalenian, early Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic). Length 10 cm
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Bison licking its back. Bone figure from La Madeleine, Dordo...

The Horse of Lourdes. Bone figure from Grotte des Espelugnes, Hautes-Pyrenees, France. Superior Magdalenian, beginning of Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic). Length 5.5 cm
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The Horse of Lourdes. Bone figure from Grotte des Espelugnes, H...

A baby goat. Bone figure from St. Michel d'Arudy, Basses-Pyrenees, France. Superior Magdalenian, beginning of Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic). Size 4 cm
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A baby goat. Bone figure from St. Michel d'Arudy, Bass...

A fish (sole). Bone figure from Grotte des Boeufs, Lespugue, France. Superior Magdalenian, beginning of Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic). Size 4 cm
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A fish (sole). Bone figure from Grotte des Boeufs, Lespu...