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