Global Prehistory
AP Art History Global Prehistory Resources
[c. 25,500–25,300 B.C.E. Charcoal on stone. ]
Recommended reading(s)
Coulson, D. and A. Campbell. African Rock Art: Paintings and Engravings on Stone. New York: Abrams, 2001.
Lewis-Williams, J.D. Believing and Seeing. Symbolic Meanings in Southern San Rock Paintings. London: Academic, 1981.
Willcox, A.R. The Rock Art of Africa. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1984.
[Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14000-7000 B.C.E. Bone.]
Recommended reading(s)
“Tequixquiac carved camelid sacrum,” The Cambridge History of the Native American Peoples of the Americas, Vol. II: Mesoamerica, Part I, Richard E. W. Adams and Murdo J. Macload, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 70-77. Worldcat
Luis Aveleyra Arroyo de Andra, “The Pleistocene Carved Bone from Tequixquiac, Mexico: A Reappraisel,” American Antiquity, 30: 3 (January 1965), 261-277.
[Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6000–4000 B.C.E. Pigment on rock. ]
Recommended reading(s)
Lajoux, J.D. The Rock Paintings of Tassili. London: World Publishing, 1963.
MacKendrick, Paul. The North African Stones Speak. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1980.
Streidter, K.H. Felsbilder der Sahara. Munich: Prestel, 1984.
[Liangzhu, China. 3300-2200 B.C.E. Carved jade.]
[Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco. 1200-900 B.C.E. Ceramic.]
Recommended reading(s)
Bernal-García, María Elena. “Reclaiming Tlatilco’s Figurines from Biased Analysis,” Woman and Art in Early Latin America, Kellen Kee McIntyre and Richard E. Phillips, eds., Leiden: Brill, 2007, 149-180. Worldcat
