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Still the oldest figurative art in Africa. 25,000 BC Artworks include: the Grimaldi Venuses , the Gargas Cave hand stencils , and the Cosquer Cave art from France.
Significant moments in African art history. Here you can read brief summaries of important events in the visual arts, and find links to articles for further reading.
For a chronological list of dates and events associated with Stone Age culture, see: Prehistoric Art Timeline. For the latest information about Stone Age cave painting, engraving and sculpture, see our new site: Prehistoric Art and Culture.
This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC.
Below is a selected chronological list of important dates showing the development of prehistoric art and culture from the Pliocene epoch, through the Lower, Middle and Upper Paleolithic eras of the Pleistocene epoch of the Stone Age, and reaching down to the Mesolithic (or Epipalaeolithic), Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages of the Holocene epoch.
The earliest human occupation occurs in Africa, and it is there that we assume art to have originated. African rock art from the Apollo 11 and Wonderwerk Caves contain examples of geometric and animal representations engraved and painted on stone.
Senufo Arts and Poro Initiation in Northern Côte d’Ivoire. Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: An Influential Exhibition at the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963. Silver in Ancient Egypt. Stained (Luster-Painted) Glass from Islamic Lands. Telling Time in Ancient Egypt. Tiraz: Inscribed Textiles from the Early Islamic Period. The Tomb of Wah
