This is a painting that I'm currently working on. I wanted to take a few pictures to show the progression of the painting, but last night I started working and didn't stop till I was almost finished with the background. Keep your eye out for the Bob Ross courage test (I suck at trees).

When we last left our prehistoric world we were about to see what the Paleolithic period was all about. Well basically it is split into periods: upper, middle and lower.

Artifacts found from this time period are split this way based on what layer of strata the objects are found in. If they are found in a lower level then they are from the lower Paleolithic period and so on. Check out this scarily accurate illustration of the earths strata.


Obviously the ones found in lower levels are older. In Paleolithic times we see two groups of people the homo habilis "handy man" and the homo sapien "wise man". Home habilis was the first one classified and he mostly just made tools, he didn't so much create things with aesthetics in mind so much as he made items that could actually be used for something.

Next was the homo sapien who moved into Europe, North Africa and Parts of Asia. Here we see the emergence of the Neanderthal who was relatively well developed , they used stone tools and there is evidence that they buried their dead with funerary objects or offerings.


After the Neanderthals we see Cro Magnon, this group I believe is really the first group in history that we can credit with creating art. Cro Magnon man had a social organization which included rituals and beliefs many of which probably lead them to create much of their art. They were also the first prehistoric group to get their own Network TV show.