Head of a woman known as the "Venus of Brassempouy" – Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mamouth tusk
Brassempouy (Landes, Frances)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales

Female statue known as the "Venus of Lespugue" – Gravettian (c. 27,000 BC) Mamouth tusk
from Lespugue (Haute-Garonne, France)
Paris, Musée de l'Homme

Cro-Magnon cave painting from Lascaux, southern France (20,000 years ago)

Horses – Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux Caves, France (c. 15,000 - 13,000 BC) paint on limestone

Bull, horses and stag – Magdalenian (c. 18,000 BC) detail of painted wall
Chamber of the Bulls, Cave of Lascaux (Dordogne, France)

Bison – Altamira Cave, Sandtander, Spain (c. 12,000 BC) paint on limestone

Bison – Magdalenian (c. 18,000 BC) deer antler
from the cave of La Madeleine (Dordogne, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales

Painted stones – Mesolithic(c. 10,000 BC) stone
from Mas-d'Azil (Ariège, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales

Neolithic hunters – red ochre painted on rock
Séfar (Tassili-n'Ajjer, Algeria)

Funerary chambers of the burial mound known as the "Barnenez Cairn"
Finistère, France(c. 4600 BC)

Group of megaliths – Stonehenge (3100-1550 BC)

Statue-Menhir – The Delphic Sibyl (c. 2500 BC) sandstone
from Serre Grand (Aveyron, France)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Musée des Antiquites nationales

Miles H. Hodges - 2018