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Period: 35,000 BCE to 8000 BCE
Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age)
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31,000 BCE
Engraved Orchres
The orchres were found in the Blombos cave in South Africa near the Southern Cape Coast. -
25,000 BCE
Naturalism Being Portrayed in Cave Paintings
The artists had started to pay more attention to how they were illustrating their paintings and used that knowledge to help create more naturalistic looking paintings. They would use the way the rocks were formed to help create more realistic and 3D characteristics in the paintings. The artists also included more shading to help with the more naturalistic looks. -
15,000 BCE
Lascaux Cave paintings
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Period: 8000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Neolithic Era (New Stone Age)
The Neolithic era was known for the creations of new technologies. The people of this time started to develop more stable lasting architecture along with using more materials from the land around them. -
4000 BCE
End of Near East and Egypt Neolithic Age
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3700 BCE
Stonehenge
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Dolmen Architecture
This structure is suspected to be a tomb.