Timeline: Art History

2,500,000 BCE

Cave art

Cave art began. Cave art was painted on ceilings and walls in Europe and Asia

2,500,000 BCE

Olduwan culture

Olduwan culture began Main key of this culture was the ability of chipping stones to create a chopping or cutting edge

40,000 BCE

Clactonian Culture

Emergence of Clactonian culture of European flint tool manufacture.

40,000 BCE

Paleolithic art

End of Paleolithic art and end of the last ice age

40,000 BCE

Cave art

Start of Aurignacian art - the beginning of cave art around the world.

15,000 BCE

Magdalenian art begins

Final major culture of the upper paleolithic, this culture is practiced by homo Sapiens across western and central europe. This culture replaced all earlier Aurignacian, Gravettian and Solutrean influence

10,000 BCE

Mesolithic Era

This era had wide variety of races. It included brachycephalic humans which are short skulled and dolichopehalic humans who are long skulled

2500 BCE

Saharan Culture

Dabous Giraffe Engravings, Taureg Saharan culture.

1500 BCE

Iron art

Iron age art begins in europe. At the same time the first bronze sculpture appears in china

1250 BCE

Colossus in Memphis

Rameses II builds the Colossus at Memphis

1184 BCE

Troy coming down

Fall of Troy in Asia Minor.

1100 BCE

kingdom of Israel

Foundation of the Kingdom of Israel

800 BCE

Settlers In Rome

Earliest settlement appear on the palatine Hill in Rome

750 BCE

Greek alphabet

Greek alphabet was created

750 BCE

Rome

Foundation of Ancient Rome. Legend has it that rome was founded on April 21. Founded by the twin brothers of Romulus and Remus . Eventually having a political growth like the greek city states.

535 BCE

Figure style

High point of Greek black-figure style of ceramic pottery. Soon followed by red-figure. This one of the styles that was used to describe the vases. Very common between the 5th and 7th century of BCE

400 BCE

Estrucan Works

Famous Etruscan works: Capitoline Wolf and Chimera of Arezzo. The Etruria Works was a ceramics factory opened by Josiah Wedgwood in 1769 in a district of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which he named Etruria.