- Pre-History
Horse c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France	Key Questions
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Cave of Lascaux c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France Bull Lascaux, France c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France Venus of Willendorf 24,000-22,000 BC Cave of Lascaux c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France "Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Imprints" (22,000 BC) Cave Painting  c. 15,000-10,000 BC Lascaux, France	Primary Sources:	Primary Sources:	Primary Sources:	Primary Sources:
	Svante Paabo's studies of DNA in Early Hominids Kolbert, "Sleeping with the Enemy: What happened between the Neanderthals and us?" New Yorker (2011) Hyperreal Wonders, Replicated A $59 million replica of the Chauvet Cave, renowned for its prehistoric paintings, opens on Saturday.	Cave Paintings of Chauvet (33,000 BCE) Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche (UNESCO) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (film) Werner Herzog  (2011) Human With Feline Head (30,000-28,000 BC) Venus of Willendorf (24,000-22,000 BC) "Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Imprints" (22,000 BC) Paleolithic Hunter Horse, Lascaux, France (c. 15,000-10,000 BC) "Cave of Lascaux" 17,000 BC		The Bullroarer (17,000 BC) (YouTube) Divje Babe Flute  (43,000 BC) Neanderthal Bone Flutes Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
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	Early Humans (Big History) E. O. Wilson, The Riddle of the Human Species: What has allowed humans to thrive? The Stone 2-23-13 McNeil, "Secrets of the Cave Paintings,"10-19-2006 NYRB Becoming Human (PBS) Bell, "Dreams from Underground" NYRB 6-9-11 on Werner Herzog's film about Chauvet Cave Pinker, "A Biological Understanding of Human Nature": The Blank Slate (2002) Pinker, "A History of Violence" (2007) (2011 update) 1270 Wallace's line and the evolution of modern humans 2201 Mount Toba: the worst volcano and the worst human catastrophe 1109 The first technology -- the one that defines us 263 The Garden of Eden in a computer simulation 394 How did Prometheus really steal fire? 989 Was there once a first language? 1024 Redating paleolithic technologies backward in time 1050 Our apelike ancestors grow a radiator to cool our brains  1408 Fast game, slow game, and Stone Age population dynamics 1415 Right and left handedness: some new ideas about origins 1431 In which dogs humanize us 1499 Domestic animals: A tricky marriage between human and beast 1526 Learning speech: the Paleolithic technological explosion Tucker, The Beer Archaeologist (2011) 1691 An update on the origin our modern human species	Africa: Continent of Origins (Met) Prehistoric Web Index Prehistoric Art (Met Timeline) Lascaux  Cave (Met Timeline) Chauvet Cave (Met Timeline) Chauvet Cave The Cave of Lascaux	2410 Was cave art too good to have been made 30,000 years ago? 359 The Dolni Vestonice Venus: ceramic art of the Upper Paleolithic period in Czechoslovakia 208 Technology, art, and the Upper Paleolithic period 1877 Ötzi's death: 5300-year-old forensic evidence brings ancient technology to life 1978 Ötzi's shoes: a lesson in ergonomics from the Stone Age 1908 In which Blombos Cave triples the length of the Upper Paleolithic Era 1957 Looking for eighty-million-year old Adam and Eve 2010 George McJunkin and Aleš Hrdlicka: Who discovered the Clovis culture? 2025 Looking for LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor	Lienhard. The Engines of Our Ingenuity. NPR. KUHF-FM Houston. 1997 1232 A Neanderthal flute made from the thigh of a cave bear Prehistoric Music Ireland
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		Spragins Age of Mythology: Pre-History