Art Of Stone Age

The birth of art.

Art of stone age.

Paleolithic art old stone 30 000 10 000 b c human beings at this time were strictly hunter gatherers which mean that they were constantly on the move in search of food. This page contains by sheer volume of the artwork discovered a very incomplete list of the works of the painters sculptors and other artists who created what is now called prehistoric art. Also known as cave art. Parietal art paintings murals drawings etchings carvings and pecked artwork on the interior of rock shelters and caves.

Tools however serve a physical purpose. The first phase of human existence was the paleolithic old stone age which spanned ca. They were also egalitarian which meant that both women and men enjoyed similar freedoms. For fuller lists see art of the upper paleolithic art of the middle paleolithic and category prehistoric art and its many sub categories.

2 500 000 10 000 bc see the stone bronze and iron ages from the very beginning of this period humans made stone tools if one counts these tools as works of art the history of art begins with the evolution of humans.