Prehistoric art

Jericho ( ; , ; Hebrew: יריחו) is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, and the capital of the Jericho Governorate. The city is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west.

large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru

art produced in preliterate cultures

prehistoric statuettes depicting women

thumb|Side view showing the transverse gouges on the left arm The figurine, also called the Lion-man of , is a prehistoric sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site, in 1939. The German name, , meaning "lion-person" or "lion-human", is used most frequently because it was discovered and is exhibited in Germany. It is an anthropomorphic figurine combining a human-like body with the head of a cave lion (Panthera spelaea).

World Heritage Site in Spain

human-made markings on natural stone

paleolithic archaeological site in Portugal

oldest known wooden sculpture

mountain range

cultural property in Villar de Argañán, Spain

Ancient settlement in Saudi Arabia

prehistoric sculpture

archaeological site in the West Bank

World Heritage Site in Antequera, Spain

Makapansgat () (or Makapan Valley World Heritage Site) is an archaeological location within the Makapansgat and Zwartkrans Valleys, northeast of Mokopane in Limpopo province, South Africa. It is an important palaeontological site, with the local limeworks containing Australopithecus-bearing deposits dating to between 3.0 and 2.6 million years BP. The whole Makapan Valley has been declared a South African Heritage Site. Makapansgat belongs to the Cradle of Humankind.

decorated cave in southwestern France

archaeological culture

The Cairn of Barnenez (also: Barnenez Tumulus, Barnenez Mound; in Breton Karn Barnenez; in French: Cairn de Barnenez or Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany, France. It dates to the early Neolithic, around 4000 BC. Along with the Tumulus of Bougon and Locmariaquer megaliths, also located in Great West France, it is one of the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe and one of the oldest man-made structures in the world. It is also remarkable for the presence of megalithic art.

ancient art flourished in the Cyclades (Greece)

cave

oldest form of prehistoric art

blockfield and rock engravings site in Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine

stone circle in Évora, Portugal

form of prehistoric art

type of carved standing stone

2010 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog

motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals

petrosphere dating from the late Neolithic to the Iron Age, mainly found in and around Scotland

portable art objects used for decorative purposes

Neolithic petroglyphs

spherical man-made object of any size that is composed of stone

prehistoric burial practice

monument

Cave in Lekeitio, Spain

protected area in Andalusia, Spain

set of geoglyphs in the Brazilian state of Acre

cave and prehistoric archaeological site in Spain

cave in South Australia

prehistoric pottery artifact from Susa

paleo-Indian sculpture

neolithic rock art in Malaysia

Archaeological site in Djibouti

standing stone in Monsaraz, Portugal

The Petroglyphs of Pusharo constitute a unique and extensive ancient rock art archaeological site in southeastern Peru's Manú National Park, an expanse of rain forest that still contains unexplored and little known areas, and for which an official government permit is required for entry.

menhir in Santa Maria da Devesa, Portugal

Tentative World Heritage Site in Indonesia

standing stone in Monsaraz, Portugal

thumb|A footprint (replica shown) carved into the rock on Dunadd, in [[Argyll, is linked to the crowning of the Scots kings of Dál Riata.]]

Prehistoric engraved shell

group of menhirs in Alcoutim, Portugal

Neolithic rock art in Algeria

ancient stone sculpture from Papua New Guinea

stone circle in Monsaraz, Portugal

Stone ball placed on a tomb

archaeological find

archaeological site in South Goa District, India