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The State Hermitage Museum: illustrated collection highlights. Artifacts from the Caucasus, Crimea, Russian steppes, Siberia and Altai.
www.hermitagemuseum.org
Comprehensive information and a virtual tour of the cave from the French Ministry of Culture.www.culture.fr
Signs of Consciousness : Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics
by J. A. Cheyne : from Paleo-Psychology
watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Chauvet Through the Eyes of a Sculptor
Sculptor John Robinson was invited to give an artist's view of the prehistoric art of the Cave of Chauvet Pont d'Arcby. The Bradshaw Foundation hosts his illustrated commentary.
www.bradshawfoundation.com
A gallery of rock art from the caves at Lascaux in France.
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Contemporary Approaches to World Rock Art
A comparative analysis of rock art created by Paleolithic cultures and historic foragers.
www.une.edu.au
An online exhibition of Ice Age art and symbol from the Texas Humanities Resource Center. Carved objects, including the Venus figure, and cave art of Western Europe.
www.humanities-interactive.org
Describes and discusses the importance of Paleolithic rock art in the Côa Valley, Portugal.
www.geocities.com
Paleolithic Art of the Pyrenees
A gallery of artwork from the Magdalenian cultural horizon from the French Ministry of Culture.
www.culture.fr
The Cave of Chauvet Pont-D'Arc
Decorated Paleolithic cave in the Ardèche region of France. The Ministry of Culture describes its discovery, authentication and preservation. The context and research. Virtual tour.
www.culture.gouv.fr
The Dawn of Prehistoric Rock Art
An article by James Q. Jacobs summarizing the earliest known rock art, with a focus on recently discovered painted caves in Paleolithic Europe, Grotto Cosquer and Grotto Chauvet.
www.jqjacobs.net
The French Ministry of Culture describes a Paleolithic art gallery in a cave that can be accessed only through a 175-metre tunnel beneath sea level. Photographs of the animal drawings and hand stencils that decorate it.
www.culture.gouv.fr
Women in Prehistory: The Venus of Willendorf
Illustrated essay by Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar College on this famous figure and the history of its discovery, with bibliography.
witcombe.sbc.edu
Mothers of Time : Seven Palaeolithic Figurines
Approximately 25,000 years on from their birth date and almost 4,000 kilometres distant from their place of origin, these seven Balzi Rossi figurines shed new light on the origins and meaning of an art that is still our own.
www.civilization.ca
Promotes acknowledgment and interpretation of paleolithic art everywhere in the world, and of the origins of Man. In English and Italian.
www.paleolithicartmagazine.org