Diepkloof Rock Shelter is a rock shelter in Western Cape, South Africa in which has been found some of the earliest evidence of the human use of symbols, in the form of patterns engraved upon ostrich eggshell water containers. These date around 60,000 years ago.
Blombos Cave Rock Art (70,000 BCE) Prehistoric Engravings with Crosshatch Patterns. ... It is famous for its prehistoric rock engravings, dating back to the Mousterian period of the Middle Paleolithic era (70,000 BCE), which puts it among the oldest Stone Age art ever discovered.
Consistent with its archeological siting, the Venus of Tan-Tan has been dated to the period 200,000-500,000 BCE, making it a contemporary of the Golan Venus of Berekhat Ram and the oldest art in Africa. This means that it was made not by Homo sapiens neanderthalensis but by the more primitive Homo erectus.
DIEPKLOOF EGGSHELL ENGRAVINGS
BLOMBOS CAVE ENGRAVINGS
VENUS OF TAN TAN
5 Most Significant Paleolithic art
Venus of Berekhat Ram: The World's Oldest Piece of Art That Predates Humans. ... It was probably created by an even earlier hominid, like the Homo erectus. The Venus of Berekhat Ram was found in 1981 during an archeological excavations on the banks of Berekhat Ram, or Lake Ram, on the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel
Venus of Berekhat Ram
Bhimbetka Petroglyphs (290,000-700,000 BCE) Cupules at Auditorium Cave & Daraki-Chattan Rock Shelter. The oldest known prehistoric art is the series of petroglyphs discovered during the 1990s in two ancient quartzite caves in India: the Auditorium Cave at Bhimbetka and a rock shelter at Daraki-Chattan.
Bhimbetka and Daraki-Chattan Cupules
