Pre-historic Art

First Impressions in Art The emergence of culture and civilization is a development uniquely credited to the human species. The birth of civilization began with the actual creation of recorded symbols, thus providing the means for the communication of ideas. Some time between 30,000 and 40,000 thousand years ago modern humans began creating the first "signs" ever created on earth. These signs were something other than simple traces of motor activities or the results and residues of …

…civilization we live in today. Human arrogance has often led us to believe that as we no longer live in the trees as our non-human, primate cousins do and are able to manipulate our environment that we have evolved above nature and are somehow separate from it. And yet with each new incredible discovery, we find that nature has been there before us. Nature, art, and science are innately, wonderfully, and beautifully unified. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**