Paleolithic Art

By Pszkodon
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Era

    The Paleolithic Era existed approximately from 30,000 BCE until 10,000 BCE. During this time, humans lived in a hunter-gatherer economy, began using stone tools, and produced the first accomplishments in human creativity. Paleolithic art and artifacts consist of cave drawings, paintings, and rock art. The subjects of cave drawings are animals, human figures, and abstract signs. There is some evidence that a preference for aesthetic emerged.
  • unknown artist, Venus of Věstonice, 39,000 BCE, ceramic clay, 11.1 cm x 4.3 cm, Moravian Museum, Brno
    29,000 BCE

    unknown artist, Venus of Věstonice, 39,000 BCE, ceramic clay, 11.1 cm x 4.3 cm, Moravian Museum, Brno

  • unknown artists, Cueva de las Manos, 7,300 BCE-700 CE, mineral pigments, Santa Cruz, Argentina
    7300 BCE

    unknown artists, Cueva de las Manos, 7,300 BCE-700 CE, mineral pigments, Santa Cruz, Argentina

    Cueva de las manos is an archaeological site compromising of almost 2,000 stenciled handprints. Created in three waves, the second wave, starting around 5,000 BCE, replaced hunting scenes with motionless animal figures and concentrations of overlapping hand stencils in purple, red, yellow, white, and black. Men, women, and children either painted their hands and placed them on the walls, outlined the hand with a brush, or blew natural pigment to create a stencil.