AP Art History Timeline
H&P = History and Politics
R = Religion
A = Art
M,L,P = Music, Literature, & Philosophy
S&T = Science and Technology

Prehistory to 600 CE

35,000 - 3,500 BCE

3,500 - 3,000 BCE

3,000 - 2,500 BCE

2,500 - 2000 BCE

History & Politics

c. 35,000 BCE First Paleolithic societies 30,000 BCE First Paleolithic paintings and sculptures c. 8000 BCE Neolithic begins in ANE c. 4,000 BCE Pre-Dynastic Period in Egypt; Neolithic begins in Europe

c. 3100 BCE Narmer unites Upper and Lower Kingdoms in Egypt c. 3000 Rise of early Aegean civilizations: Cretan, Cycladic, and Helladic periods

c. 2,900-2,300 BCE Sumerian c. 2,300-2,150 BCE Akkadian

c. 2150 - 2000 BCE Neo-Sumerian

Religion

Polytheism

Art

Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf) c. 28,000-25,000 BCE Hall of Bulls, Lascaux, France .c 15,000 - 13,000 BCE Deer Hunt Mural & Volcano, Çatal Hüyük, 5750 BCE Jericho, c. 7,000 - 6,000 BCE

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England, c. 2550 - 1,600 BCE Seated Gudea, c. 2100 BCE

Hammurabi's Law Code, c. 1780 BCE

Music, Literature, & Philosophy

Science & Technology

c. 8000 BCE Husbandry and farming develop in the Near East