This is a descriptive list of stone age art the period of prehistory characterised by the widespread use of stone tools.
Art of stone age.
For fuller lists see art of the upper paleolithic art of the middle paleolithic and category prehistoric art and its many sub categories.
Also known as cave art.
The art of the stone age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity preceding the invention of writing.
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.
Parietal art paintings murals drawings etchings carvings and pecked artwork on the interior of rock shelters and caves.
They were also egalitarian which meant that both women and men enjoyed similar freedoms.
Tools however serve a physical purpose.
The first phase of human existence was the paleolithic old stone age which spanned ca.
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.