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Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

Printed Books

Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Harvey Miller, 2008
Copyright in the Renaissance
Brill, 2004
Digital Books

Art’s History in Europe Part 1 Prehistoric Europe, Egypt, Near East, Aegean, Greece
Apple iTunes, 2014
The Visual Experience of ART
Apple iTunes, 2012
Venus of Willendorf
Apple iTunes, 2013
853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings
Apple iTunes, 2014

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PREHISTORIC ART

Ancient Egyptian Art

Art in the Ancient Near East

Ancient Greek Art

Ancient Roman Art

Early Christian & Byzantine Art

Renaissance Art in Italy

Renaissance Art Outside Italy

Art in Southeast Asia

Art in Africa

Art of the Americas

Art of Pacific Cultures

Prints & Photography

Various & Miscellaneous

Art History News & Blogs

PREHISTORIC ART: General
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EuroPreArt, a data-base of European prehistoric art documentation with more than 800 records, 2700 images, 2800 reference titles (funded by the European Union, Education and Culture 2000 Programme)
OriginsNet, Three Million Years of Prehistoric Art, Religion and Symbol in Human Evolution (James B. Harrod)
The Prehistoric Temples of Malta (Mike Gunther)
Megalithic Temples of Malta (Daniel Cilia)
Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum) (through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
Prehistoric Art (through the Bradshaw Foundation)
Introduction to Prehistoric Art, 20,000-8000 B.C., Thematic Essays through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
Prehistoric Art and Culture

PREHISTORIC ART: Paleolithic
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Accueil prehistoire Conseil Général de la Dordogne
- Lascaux
- Archéologie
- Other sites (La grotte de de Rouffignac ou grotte aux Cent Mamouths, and la grotte de Villars)
The Cave of Lascaux
The Cave of Lascaux - Lascaux II (useful visitor information)
The Lascaux Cave—a prehistoric sky-map
Lascaux (ca. 1500 B.C.) (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
The Cave of Chauvet - Pont-d'Arc, France
Chauvet Cave (part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
The Cosquer Cave, France (through Underwater Archaeology)
- A Very Unique Cave
- Virtual Visit
- Land Animals
- Marine Animals
- The Hands
Prehistoric Cave of Rouffignac
Le gisement du Roc-aux-Sorciers à Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne, France
Pech Merle Prehistory Center (Centre de Préhistoire de Pech Merle)
La grotte de Cussac, Le Buisson de Cadouin (Dordogne)
- La Découverte
- La Grotte
- Les Figures
La frise sculptée de l'Abri Bourdois
La grotte de Niaux
Grotte de Niaux (useful visitor information)
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Cave Paintings (Mark Harden's Artchive), with links to images of:
- Bison, Altamira, Spain
- Chinese Horse, Lascaux, France
- wounded bison, man, rhinoceros (the well scene), Lascaux, France
Palaeolithic / Paleolithic European, Russian and Australian Archaeology / Archeology Sites (through Don’s Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock)
- Altamira Cave
- Australian Archeology / Archeology sites
- La Grotte de Bara Bahau
- Grotte de Bédeilhac
- Grotte de Bernifal
- Monte Buciero
- El Buxu Cave
- Caves and Rock Shelters on the North coast of Spain
- L'Abri du Cap Blanc
- Carnarvon Gorge
- Castel-Merle, Vallon des Roches
- Roc de Cazelle
- St Césaire Neanderthal Skeleton
- The Neandertal skeleton from La Chapelle-aux-Saints
- Chauvet Cave
- Côa Valley
- Coliboaia Cave
- Les Combarelles
- Combe-Capelle
- Combe Grenal
- Cougnac Cave
- Covalanas Cave
- Cro-Magnon Shelter
- Cussac Cave
- Burial Mounds in Denmark
- Homo Erectus site at Dmanisi
- Dolni Vestonice
- Homo erectus (Beijing Man, Peking Man) sites
- La Ferrassie Neanderthal skeletons and Rock Shelter
- Homo floresiensis
- Font de Gaume in the French Dordogne
- French and Spanish Caves and Rock Shelters
- Grottes et Abris-sous-Roche Français et Espagnols
- The cave art of Grotte de Gargas
- Gobustan
- Gönnersdorf
- La Gravette
- Iron Gates Gorge
- Caves of Isturitz and Oxocelhaya
- Neanderthal skeleton from Kebara in Israel
- Kostenki and other sites on the Don River
- Lagar Velho Hybrid Child
- Lascaux Cave
- Laugerie Haute
- Laugerie Basse
- Lene Hara Cave
- Proto Lepenski Vir and Lepenski Vir Ia
- Lepenski Vir Ib-e, II, III
- Liujiang
- Location Maps and Themes of Cave Paintings
- Mamontovaya Kurya
- Ice Age Infants
- The Krems-Wachtberg Pavlovian mammoth site in Austria
- Lucy's baby, Australopithecus afarensis
- La Madeleine
- Manis Mastodon
- L'Abri des Marseilles
- Le Mas d'Azil
- La Micoque
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter
- Mezhirich
- Mezin
- El Mirón cave
- Mousterian (Neanderthal) Sites
- Le Moustier Neanderthal skeletons
- Grotte de la Mouthe
- The original Neanderthal from the Neander Valley
- Neanderthal Symbolism
- Neolithic and later sites
- Niaux Cave
- Otzi the Iceman
- Peştera cu Oase
- The Paisley Caves
- Venus of Abri Pataud
- Pech Merle
- Cueva del Pindal
- Placard Cave
- L'Abri Poisson
- La Quina
- Le Regourdou
- Roc-de-Cave
- Roc de Marsal
- Roque Saint-Christophe
- Prehistory of the Oltenia region of Romania - The Alexis Project
- La Grotte de Rouffignac
- Le Ruth and Le Cellier
- The Grotte du Sorcier, or the Roc Saint-Cirq
- Sungir
- Fort de Tayac
- Grotte de la Vache
- Grotte de Villars
- Vogelherd cave
- Wonderwerk cave
- Zaraysk
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Cantabria
- The Cave at Altamira
- Discovery
- Altamira Museum through time
- Conservation of Altamira
Altamira Cave (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
Palaeolithic (part of Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum), through Kemerovo State University, Russia)
- Cave Paintings
  - Kapova
    Spain
  - Altamira
    France
  - Lascaux
  - Rouffignac
  - Niaux
  - Pech Merle
  - Cosquer
  - Chauvet
    South America
  - Brasilia
- Portable Art
Venus Figures from the Stone Age (through Don's Maps, maintained by Don Hitchcock)
- The Worshipper, called 'Adorant'
- Venus of Abri Pataud
- Avdeevo Venuses
- Balzi Rossi Venuses – the Grimaldi Venuses
- Brassempouy Venus
- The Brown Ivory Figurine
- Caldas Cave Venus
- Courbet Venus
- Craiova Venus
- Venus of Dolni Vestonice
- Double Venus
- The Engen (Petersfels) Venuses
- Venus of Frasassi
- Gagarino Venus
- Galgenberg Venus
- The Woman with Goitre
- Hermaphrodite Venus
- Venus of Hohle Fels
- Venus Impudique (Immodest Venus)
- Kesslerloch Venus
- Kostenki venus figures
- Krasnyy Yar Venus
- Lalinde / Gönnersdorf Figurines and Engravings
- Venus of Laugerie Basse
- Venus of Laussel
- Venus of Lespugue
- Venus de Losange
- The Lion Lady - Die Lowenfrau
- Mal’ta Venuses
- The Mask
- Mauern Venus
- Venus of Menton
- Venus of Milandes
- Venus of Monpazier
- Venus of Moravany
- Nebra Venus
- Negroid Venus Head
- Venus figures of Neuchâtel - Monruz
- Nun Venus, Flattened Figure
- Venus of Parabita
- Venus of Parrano
- Woman with the Perforated Neck
- The Petersfels (Engen) venuses
- Placard Venus
- La Poire Venus
- Venus of Polichinelle
- Red Ochre Venus
- Savignano Venus
- Sireuil Venus
- Venus of Tantan
- Venus of Tursac
- Woman with Two Heads
- Undescribed Venus of Balzi Rossi
- Vogelherd Venus
- Venus of Willendorf
- Zaraysk Venus
- Venus of Kostenki
The Venus of Willendorf (essay by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe)
Seven Palaeolithic Figurines from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection
Prehistoric Art of the Pyrenees, an exhibition, April 3 - July 8 1996, Musée des Antiquités nationales- Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Castle), with a link to the:
- Itinerary (including a number of images)
The Lionman (found in the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Valley of Lone, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Lionheaded figurine

PREHISTORIC ART: Mesolithic
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Mesolithic (part of Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum), through Kemerovo State University, Russia)

PREHISTORIC ART: Neolithic
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Life along the Danube 6500 years ago (through Great Archaeological Sites sites archéologique produced by the French Ministère de la culture et de la communication
Preserving Ancient Statues from Jordan (the 'Ain Ghazal statues) An exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Introduction to the statues
- Discovering the statues
- Making the statues
- Preserving the statues
- Investigating art and ritual
- Images and Exhibit Labels
Çatalhöyük, excavations at a Neolithic Anatolian Höyük
Stone Pages (Paola Arosio & Diego Meozzi) - stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts in:
- England
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Wales
- France
- Italy
The Megalith Map, a resource for finding any stone circle or stone row in England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
Megalithic Visions (European megalithic culture)
Images of Megalithic sites in the British Isles (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- England
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Mainland Scotland
- Scottish islands
- Wales
Images of Megalithic sites in Continental Europe (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
- Bulgaria
- Northern France
- Mallorca
- Romania
Carnac
- Le Ménec cromlech
- Kermario
- Kerlescan
- Petit Ménec
La Musée de Préhistoire à Carnac
Stonehenge (English Heritage site)
Stonehenge (Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe) with an additional link to:
- Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge
Stonehenge, England (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)
Prehistoric Architecture (Stonehenge) (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
Stonehenge, with a link to The Mystery of the Megaliths (through Mysterious Places, text and photography © Cliff Wassmann)
Megalithia — Stone Circles, megaliths, prehistoric stones (Richard Mudhar)
- Introduction to megalithic sites in the UK and Eire
- Stonehenge
- Avebury
- Designs in Stone
- Ireland
  - Newgrange Stone Circle and Barrow
  - Lios Grange Stone Circle
  - Lissyviggeen Stone Circle, Kerry
  - Kenmare Stone Circle, Kerry
  - Eightercua Stone Row/Alignment, Kerry
  - Ardgroom SW Stone Circle, Cork
  - Glantane East East Stone Circle, Cork
  - Knocknakilla Stone Circle, Cork
Prehistoric Sites in the Orkney Islands, Scotland (through Orkneyjar: The Heritage of the Orkney Islands)
- Skara Brae
- Orkney's Chambered Cairns
  - Building the cairns
  - How were the cairns used?
  - Maeshowe
  - Isbister Cairn - The Tomb of the Eagles
  - The Cuween Hill Cairn, Firth
  - Quoyness Cairn, Sanday
  - Wideford Hill Cairn
  - Unstan Cairn, Stenness
  - Crantit Cairn, St. Ola
  - Taversoe Tuick, Rousay
- Orkney's Standing Stones
Archaeology Photographs (Scotland) by Charles Tait
- Orkney Archaeology
- Caithness Archaeology
- Western Isles Archaeology
Megalithic Passage Tombs in Ireland
- Newgrange
- Knowth
- Dowth
- Fourknocks
- Loughcrew
- Tara
Newgrange
Newgrange, County Meath (through Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio)

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