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Evidence from paleo-archeological information indicates that the oldest art was created by humans during the Stone Age, between 300,000 and 700,000 years ago. This first (oldest) form of art was rock carving (petroglyphs), which occurred throughout the world during the Lower Paleolithic. Other forms of art followed: engravings, sculpture (in stone, ivory, bone and wood), cave painting, relief sculpture, ceramic pottery and architecture.

The first prehistoric artists lived in the Lower Paleolthic era, between roughly 300,000 and 1 million BCE. They would have been descendants of Homo erectus. Later Stone Age artists (from 100,000 to roughly 40,000 BCE) would have been types of archaic Homo Sapiens very similar to us or like Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis)
Art predates history. There are still paintings and etchings left by cave people, that have survived into modern times. It's possible that some of them weren't made by homo sapiens, but by other human species (Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, etc.) that died out thousands of years ago.

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