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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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Gold hammer from a tomb of an excavation at Varna, Romania. Chalcolithic (also known as the copper age)
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Gold hammer from a tomb of an excavation at Varna, Romania. Chalcolithic (also k...

Burial chamber of an adolescent male lying in a bed of red ochre with a large number of grave goods, nicknamed "Il Principe" ("The Prince"). From the archaeological site of Arene Candide on the Ligurian coast near Savona, Italy. Dated to the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) period.
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Burial chamber of an adolescent male lying in a bed of red ochre with a large nu...

Burial chamber of "Man of Menton" from the caves of Balzi Rossi. Bones and soil around the skelleton showed an intense red color, caused by powder of ochre the corpse was sprinkled with. The skull was adorned with marine shells. Upper Palaeolithic
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Burial chamber of "Man of Menton" from the caves of Balzi Rossi. Bones and soil...

Neanderthal skull from La Ferrassie, France, dating to approximately 35,000 years ago. The archaeological site at La Ferrassie in the Dordogne has one of the best examples of Neanderthal collective burial places.
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Neanderthal skull from La Ferrassie, France, dating to approximately 35,000 year...

Wax reconstruction of Neanderthal man.
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Wax reconstruction of Neanderthal man.

A Neanderthal tomb burial from La Chapelle aux Saints, France, dating from about 50,000 years ago. The extreme infirmities of the skeleton of an old man found at La Chapelle suggest that he was cared for by other members of his clan, or he would not have survived as long as he did. Such discoveries helped to change the original perception of Neanderthals as being brutish and ape-like.
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A Neanderthal tomb burial from La Chapelle aux Saints, France, dating from about...

Skull of Homo erectus from Sangiran Java. The earliest fossils of Homo erectus, or a more primitive ancestral form Homo ergaster, date back to 1.8–1.9 million years ago, in Kenya. Homo erectus has been identified as having been present in tropical areas of the Old World soon after this, and later still in temperate areas of Asia and Europe.
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Skull of Homo erectus from Sangiran Java. The earliest fossils of Homo erectus,...

Skull of Homo habilis from Lake Turkana, Kenya. Homo habilis is the earliest known species of the genus Homo; that is, the first human species. It existed from approximately 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago in east Africa. Only a few fossil remains have been discovered so far, but these specimens exhibit a clear trend toward larger brain size.
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Skull of Homo habilis from Lake Turkana, Kenya. Homo habilis is the earliest kno...

Beaker burial from Shrewton; 2000 BCE. A 'Beaker' period burial from an Early Bronze Age cemetery on Net Down, near Shrewton, a few miles from Stonehenge. This type of burial is typical of this period with the inclusion of a 'Beaker' pot and a copper dagger with a bone pommel.
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Beaker burial from Shrewton; 2000 BCE. A 'Beaker' period burial from an Early B...

Headless female terracotta figurine known as Venus of Malta From Hagar Qim, Malta; 3400-3000 BCE
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Headless female terracotta figurine known as Venus of Malta From Hagar Qim, Malt...

Stone relief with animals, cattle and goat. From Megalithic temple of Tarxien, Malta; 3500 BCE
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Stone relief with animals, cattle and goat. From Megalithic temple of Tarxien,...

Rock paintings of human figures from Oum Ecnha, Libya.
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Rock paintings of human figures from Oum Ecnha, Libya.