Tools however serve a physical purpose.
Art of stone age.
The birth of art.
Also known as cave art.
The first phase of human existence was the paleolithic old stone age which spanned ca.
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.
The art was portable or stationary and both of these art forms were limited in scope.
Parietal art paintings murals drawings etchings carvings and pecked artwork on the interior of rock shelters and caves.
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.
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.