Prehistoric Collection

Lascaux II cave painting replica C013 / 7378
Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are deer and auroch figures in the Great Hall of the Bulls. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

Ancient prehistoric standing stones in a stone circle, Scorhill Stone Circle, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Duria antiquior (Ancient Dorset), an imaginative reconstruction of the life of
ONH99609 Duria antiquior (Ancient Dorset), an imaginative reconstruction of the life of the Jurassic seas, engraved by George Scharf (1820-95) printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850)

One Million Years B. C. One Quad Artwork
One Million Years B.C. One Quad Artwork

Fossil Bird Archaeopteryx Cast - Original specimen in Berlin-Germany - Known as "the first bird" with both
CAN-2452 Fossil Bird Archaeopteryx Cast - Original specimen in Berlin - Germany Known as "the first bird" with both dinosaurian

Scotland, Orkney Islands, Skara Brae Prehistoric Village. Skara Brae, a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland Orkney

Lascaux cave painting. Bulls & horses. Copyright: aA Collection Ltd
Lascaux cave painting: bull and horses, France. Avail up to 100MB-call for details

Fossil ammonite- Desmoceras spp. -Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian Stage - Mahajanga Province - Madagascar - Under UV
CAN-3851 Fossil ammonite Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian Stage - Mahajanga Province - Madagascar - Under UV light Desmoceras spp

Archaeopteryx fossil, Berlin specimen C016 / 5071
Archaeopteryx fossil, Berlin specimen. Cast of the Archaeopteryx specimen held at the Berlin Natural History Museum. This cast shows the spread-out wings and long, clawed fingers

Fossil tooth of megalodon or megatooth shark Oceanopolis Brest Brittany France
MAB-908 Fossil tooth of megalodon or megatooth shark Oceanopolis Brest Brittany France Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Sunrise at the White Horse, Uffington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Archaeopteryx, fossil bird, Jurassic
PM-9858 Archaeopteryx, fossil bird Jurassic Archaeopteryx Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. Artist: Leon-Maxime Faivre
Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. From the Musee d Orsay, Paris

Coelacanth Fossil - Germany - Upper Jurassic - Coelacanths thought to be extinct since Cretaceous period until
CAN-2449 Coelacanth Fossil - Germany Upper Jurassic Coelacanths thought to be extinct since Cretaceous period until Latimeria Chalumnae found in 1938 off coast of South Africa John Cancalosi Please

Stonehenge at sunrise N120064
STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. General view of Stonehenge at sunrise

Venus of Willendorf, Stone Age figurine, rear view. Discovered in 1908 near Willendorf, Austria, this 11-centimetre-tall limestone figurine dates from around 23, 000 years ago

Fossil egg of the Elephant bird with hen and goose eggs for comparison
JH-50 Fossil egg of the Elephant bird with hen and goose eggs for comparison Aepyornis maximus John Holmes Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Ramparts of the prehistoric hill fort on Hambledon Hill above the Blackmore Vale, Dorset, England, UK, September 2015

Primitive men with spears hunting a glyptodon, large, armored mammal of the family Glyptodontidae.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric

Iguanodons were herbivorous dinosaurs from the mid-Jurassic to late Cretaceous.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916, Hamburg

Stonehenge in snow N100786
STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. General view of Stonehenge in the snow

Stonehenge N130045
STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. Aerial view

Plesiosaurus
Pen and ink annotated drawing by Mary Anning, 1824. This marine reptile lived in Europe during the early Jurassic period about 200 million years ago

Lascaux cave painting, Bordeaux, France (photo)
KW1078074 Lascaux cave painting, Bordeaux, France (photo); (add.info.: Bordeaux, Gironde Department, Aquitaine, France. Exact facsimile of a painting from the Lascaux cave exhibited in the Musee d)

Ichthyosaurus acutirostris
A fossil specimen of the extinct fish-like marine reptile Ichthyosaurus acutirostris from Germany. It lived during the Lower Jurassic period 205-180 million years ago

Venus of Brassempouy
The Venus of Brassempouy carved out of ivory some 18, 000 years ago and discovered in Brassempouy, France. Believed to have been carved during the last stage of the Upper Palaeolithic age

Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic, c. 18, 000 years ago, Vezere Valley, Dordogne, France JFL00048
FL-3018 Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic, c.18, 000 years ago Vezere Valley, Dordogne, France Ferrero Labat contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Crinoid Fossil - "Sea Lilies" Triassic period 240 m. y. a. Northern Germany
KEL-1499 Crinoid Fossil - "Sea Lilies" Triassic period 240 m.y.a. Northern Germany Ken Lucas Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Time of Great Change
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Cretaceous Period - a time of great change, about 80 Million Years ago. Illustration by Neave Parker (with the co-operation of Dr. W. E. Swinton)

Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted
Prehistory. Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted horse. His head is drawn in the natural cut of the rock. On his back, a large red fish. Six black hands all around the horses

The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC
Prehistory. The Trundholm sun chariot. Early Bronze Age. C. 1400 BC. Scandinavian

Prehistoric Art. Greece. Handmade vase without decoration. Globular body with two small handles, wide mouth and foot. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands), UNESCO World Heritage Site, a cave or series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, 163 km south of the town of Perito Moreno, Patagonia, Argentina

Scotland, The Isle of Lewis, Callanish Stone Circle. Callanish Stone Circle, a famous neolithic monument located on the Isle of Lewis in the chain of islands known as the Outer Hebrides

Picture No. 10766504
Primitive Aboriginal Rock Painting about 20 000 years b.p. Date:

Stonehenge N130044
STONEHENGE, Wiltshire. Aerial view

Lascaux II cave painting replica C013 / 7382
Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963

Asteroceras, fossil ammonite
A 16 cm diameter specimen of the Jurassic ammonite Asteroceras from the Lower Jurassic of Dorset, England

Stonehenge Sunset juust after the winter solstice

Archaeopteryx - bird-like dinosaur
Archaeopteryx - a genus of bird-like dinosaurs that is transitional between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. Date: Late Jurassic Period

Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus
Sheet 3 of a series of posters by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins c. 1862, showing Iguanodon and Hylaeosaurus. Date: circa 1862

TARR STEPS
Tarr Steps, a Prehistoric stone bridge over the River Barle, near Dulverton, Somerset, England, said to have been placed there by the Devil to win a bet. Date: circa 1000 BC

Standing Stones of Callanish (Callanish 1) on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The megalithic monument is cross shaped with a central ring of stones and was buildt between 2900 and 2600 BC

Alberobello, Puglia, Italy

Continental Drift
The world 200 million years ago in Upper Triassic times, showing the single continent of Pangaea and the universal ocean, Panthalassa

Archaeopteris hibernica, fossil plant
A fern-like plant, beautifully preserved in yellow sandstone from the Devonian, Kilkenny, Ireland. Specimen is 25 cms long

Coelophysis fossil
Coelophysis was one of the earliest known dinosaurs which lived 225 to 220 million years ago during the Upper Triassic. It was a small bipedal carnivore up to 3 metres in length

Fossil ammonite- Desmoceras spp. -Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian Stage - Mahajanga Province - Madagascar
CAN-3850 Fossil ammonite Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian Stage - Mahajanga Province - Madagascar Desmoceras spp. John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Fossil Ammonite - Cleoniceras sp. - Cretaceous - Madagascar
CAN-3844 Fossil Ammonite Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian stage - Mahajanga province - Madagascar - cross-section Cleoniceras sp

Prehistoric Reconstruction AH 86 Woolly Mammoth © Arthur Hayward ARDEA LONDON
AH-86 WOOLLY MAMMOTH - Prehistoric Reconstruction Mammuthus Primigenius Arthur Hayward Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Irish Elk / Giant Deer - stag calling. Extinct. Prehistoric reconstruction Pleistocene Period
AH-2 IRISH ELK / GIANT DEER / MEGALOCEROS - stag calling Pleistocene period Megaloceros giganteus Prehistoric reconstruction

Fossil Centipede in Amber - Dominican Republlic - 15-40 million years old - oligocene
CAN-2447 Fossil Centipede in Amber - Dominican Republlic 15-40 million years old oligocene and miocene - amber is hardened tree resin which preserves organisms trapped inside - Dominican amber comes

Neanderthal Mankind By H. H. Johnston. From The Book The Outline Of History Volume 1 By H. G. Wells, Published 1920
Neanderthal Mankind By H.H.Johnston. From The Book The Outline Of History Volume 1 By H.G.Wells, Published 1920

Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, on a snowy plain. 1908 (illustration)
7233337 Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, on a snowy plain. 1908 (illustration) by Harder, Heinrich (1858-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum)

A rare British broadsheet illustration with contemporary hand colouring, drawn and engraved by John Emslie and published by James Reynolds in 1849

Prehistoric ceremonial lines of stones, Merrivale, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Pterodactyl
Drawing of a Pterodactyl, an extinct flying reptile that lived during the Mesozoic era from around 251 millon years ago to 65 million years ago during the time of the K-T extinction

Kelloways Stone

Dinosaur Tracks - Footprints of a Theropod Dinosaur. Lower Jurassic. La Sal Mountains, Utah, USA
FG-6065-C Dinosaur Tracks - Footprints of a Theropod Dinosaur. Lower Jurassic. La Sal Mountains, Utah, USA Theropods were carnivorous dinosaurs - such as Allosaurus or T rex; they left three-toed

Dinosaurs - Geology Sedimentary sequence at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico: Triassic Chinle Formation (red)
FG-CD-87 Dinosaur geology: Sedimentary sequence at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Triassic Chinle Formation (red, foreground); Jurassic Entrada Formation (red/white cliffs)

Dragonfly Fossil - Eocene 53 m. y. a. Green River Formation Fossil Lake, Wyoming
KEL-1313 Dragonfly Fossil - Eocene 53 m.y.a. Green River Formation Fossil Lake, Wyoming. Ken Lucas Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Tyrannosaurus Rex Dinosaur - Dinosaur Gardens, Vernal, Utah, USA
FG-6061 DINOSAUR - TYRANNOSAURUS REX Dinosaur Gardens, Vernal, Utah, USA. Francois Gohier Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Fossil Ammonite - Upper Early Cretaceous - Albian stage - Mahajanga province - Madagascar - cross-section
CAN-3717 Fossil Ammonite - Upper Early Cretaceous Albian stage - Mahajanga province - Madagascar - cross-section Cleoniceras sp

Fossil Fish - Jurassic. Extinct species Eichstadt, Germany E50T3798
CAN-2197 Fossil Fish - Jurassic. Extinct species Eichstadt, Germany Caturus furcatus John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Fossil Salamander - Northern China - Permian-230, 000 million years old
CAN-2469 Fossil Salamander Northern China - Permian - 230, 000 million years old John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Fossil Ammonite (Speetoniceras) - Russia - Cretaceous
CAN-2454 Fossil Ammonite (Speetoniceras) Russia - Cretaceous John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Greek physician. Steel engraving, English, 1839
HIPPOCRATES (c460-c377 B.C.). Greek physician. Steel engraving, English, 1839

Fossil Coelocanth - Jurassic Germany E50T4074
CAN-2189 Fossil Coelacanth - Jurassic Germany Rare John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Great Zimbabwe - The Conical Tower
The majestic remains of a once-thriving trading civilisation who were the ancestors of the Shona peoples of Zimbabwe. Date: circa 1940s

Devils Quoit CC72_02480
The Devils Quoit, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire. Henry Taunt stands by the Devils Quoit no 1 showing the scale of this massive standing stone

Stonehenge DP180673
STONHENGE, Amesbury, Wiltshire. View of Stonehenge with a single beam of light for the centenary to mark the outbreak of the First World War. Shot after twilight

Proconsul africanus
An illustration of the extinct primate, Proconsul africanus. Like Dendropithecus, they mostly lived in tropical forests in East Africa during the Miocene about 50 million years ago

Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC

Avebury. Littlecote. Silbury. Devils Den. Grand Avenue. 1898. Creator: Unknown
Avebury. Littlecote. Silbury. Devils Den. Grand Avenue. 1898. From " Our Own Country, Volume IV". [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1898]

Palaeontology, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Palaeontology, c1910. Palaeontology, the scientific study of life forms existing in the past though examination of fossils, plants, animals, and organisms

Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. Arago
Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. 450.000 years old fossil. Discovered in the Arago Cave in Tautavel, France

Mosasaur, Mosasaurus hoffmannii, extinct genus of carnivorous aquatic lizards.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Hyaenodon, extinct genus of carnivorous creodonts.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916, Hamburg

Merycoidodon or Oreodon, extinct genus of herbivore endemic to North America.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric

Pteranodon, large flying pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous period.. Colour printed illustration by Heinrich Harder from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1916, Hamburg

Chun Cromlech, Morvah, Cornwall. Summer 1858
The Chun Cromlech or Quoit. A megalithic tomb located on open moorland between Pendeen and Morvah. Photographer: Dr John Wheeley Gough Gutch

Rock painting of the San, Bushmen, Ladybrand, Free State, South Africa, Africa

BOLIVIA: TIAHUANACO FIGURE. Drawing of one of the many figures on each side of the main figure of the Sun Door at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia

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Step back in time and explore the wonders of the prehistoric world. From the breathtaking Lascaux II cave painting replica to the imaginative reconstruction of Duria antiquior, these glimpses into ancient life leave us in awe. The Bulls & horses depicted in the Lascaux cave painting transport us to a time long gone, while One Million Years B. C. Takes us on a journey through an artistic quad artwork. Discovering a fossil tooth of the mighty megalodon shark at Oceanopolis Brest Brittany France reminds us of the incredible creatures that once roamed our oceans. Meanwhile, the Fossil Bird Archaeopteryx Cast serves as a fascinating link between dinosaurs and birds, showcasing nature's evolutionary marvels. As dawn breaks over Uffington's White Horse in Oxfordshire, England, we can almost feel ourselves transported back to an era when humans coexisted with magnificent creatures. Skara Brae Prehistoric Village on Scotland's Orkney Islands offers a glimpse into early human settlements and their way of life. The fossil ammonite Desmoceras spp. , illuminated under UV light, reveals intricate details from its Upper Early Cretaceous existence in Madagascar. Standing atop Hambledon Hill's prehistoric hill fort ramparts above Blackmore Vale transports us to an age where ancient civilizations thrived. And who could forget about Coelacanth? Once thought extinct since the Cretaceous period until Latimeria Chalumnae was discovered off South Africa's coast in 1938 - this German Upper Jurassic fossil reminds us that there is still so much left to uncover about our planet's history. Join us as we delve into these prehistoric treasures and embark on a journey through time itself. Let your imagination run wild as you explore Earth's rich past and marvel at its extraordinary inhabitants.