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 ...

The depiction of a "warty pig" in a rock art panel on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is thought to be about 45,500 years old and may be the earliest "representational" art ever found.

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.

Walter Alexander Classical Endowment, James H. Allan and Christopher D. Allan funds. Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic.