Prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or it makes significant contact with another culture that has. From the Upper Palaeolithic through the Mesolithic, cave paintings and portable art like figurines and beads predominated, with decorative figured workings also seen on some utilitarian objects.

	Paleolithic Art  Paleolithic art produced from about 32,000 to 11,000 years ago, during the Stone Age. It includes both portable pieces, such as small figurines or decorated objects, and cave art, such as paintings and engravings on cave walls….. [More]
	Mesolithic Art  Mesolithic art produced from about 10,000 years ago, at the end of Pleistocene Ice Age. It was the beginnings of both settled communities and farming and includes the invention of the bow and arrow, pottery for food storage and the domestication of a few animals… [More]
	Neolithic Art  Neolithic art produced from about 8,000 years ago. It introduced weaving, architecture, the construction of megaliths and increasingly stylized pictographs that were well on their way to becoming writing…. [More]