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)

1,733 photos
Women and children and cattle next to a group          
of huts which are represented by white ovals.          
Detail of 06-01-01/34                                  
Fresco from Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria.                  
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010135

Women and children and cattle next to a group of huts which are repres...

Women gathering grain.                                 
Fresco of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria.                    
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010136

Women gathering grain. Fresco of Tassili N'Ajje...

Cattle and herdsmen: women with children.
Fresco of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria.
Henri Lhote Collection.
#06010137

Cattle and herdsmen: women with children. Fresco of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria. He...

Women mounted on horned oxen. An entire                
community moves to a new region. The                   
women wear elaborate capes and hairdos.                
Frescoes of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria.                  
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010138

Women mounted on horned oxen. An entire community moves to a new...

Perhaps a scene of jurisdiction. A man in              
the centre, possibly accused of some crime,            
is led off by an official in striped coat.             
Group of robed justices (?) on lower left.             
Fresco of Tassili N'Ajjer, Henri Lhote Collection
#06010139

Perhaps a scene of jurisdiction. A man in the centre, possibly acc...

Perhaps a scene of jurisdiction. A man in              
the centre, possibly accused of some crime,            
is led off by an official in striped coat.             
Group of robed justices (?) on lower left.             
Fresco of Tassili N'Ajjer, Henri Lhote Collection
#06010140

Perhaps a scene of jurisdiction. A man in the centre, possibly acc...

A weary warrior returns to camp and                    
collapses from exhaustion or wounds,                   
as two figures move towards him to help.               
Frescos of Tassili N'Ajjer.                            
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010141

A weary warrior returns to camp and collapses from exhaustio...

Ritual dance.                                          
Frescos of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria.                   
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010142

Ritual dance. Frescos of Tassili N'Ajj...

Sitting women and returning hunter.                    
Frescoes of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria.                  
Henri Lhote Collection
#06010143

Sitting women and returning hunter. Frescoes of Tassili N'Aj...

Amber beads.                                           
Stone age
#06010144

Amber beads. Stone age

"The Iron Gate" on the Danube,
some 20 km north of the prehistoric
site of Lepenski Vir. Serbia is
on the southern, Romania on the
northern bank of the river.
#06010145

"The Iron Gate" on the Danube, some 20 km north of the prehistoric site of Lep...

Trapezoid mountain on the Romanian (northern)
side of the Iron Gate of the Danube, seen
from Lepenski Vir on the Yugoslav side,
a stone-age site which was discovered
in 1960. Excavations begun in 1965.
#06010146

Trapezoid mountain on the Romanian (northern) side of the Iron Gate of the Danu...