In the history of art, 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 makes significant contact with another culture that has, and ...

There are many well-known examples of ancient art. Some of the best-known examples are the Great Pyramids of Giza (c. 2,560 BCE), Stonehenge (c. 3,000 BCE), and the Parthenon (c.

In general, it is believed that cave paintings serve symbolic, religious, or occasionally both purposes. Some academics speculate that the murals may have been created as a result of shamanic rituals and beliefs as to why prehistoric humans painted on cave walls.