Timeline Paleolithic

40,000-20,000BCE       Early Paleolithic

• 1st sculptures/paintings before written language

20,000-9000BCE           Later Paleolithic

• Painters cover walls/ceilings with animals in strict profile
• Sculptors carve nude women

9000-8000BCE              Mesolithic

• Ice caps melt: humans migrate

8000-5000BCE              Early Neolithic

• Settled communities
• Agriculture
• Stone walls built; Jericho fortified walls
• Large-scale human figures on painted plaster (dry fresco)
• Narrative paintings
• Composite views w/human figures

5000-2300BCE              Later Neolithic

• Megalithic passage graves/Stonehenge built
• Stone temples-carved/rectinear