List of Stone Age art

This article contains, by sheer volume of the artwork discovered, a very incomplete list of the works of the painters, sculptors, and other artists who created what is now called prehistoric art.

The oldest undisputed figurative art appears with the Aurignacian, about 40,000 years ago, which is associated with the earliest presence of Cro-Magnon artists in Europe.

Figurines with date estimates of 40,000 years are the so-called Lion-man and Venus of Hohle Fels, both found in the Southern Germany caves of the Swabian Jura.

Australia and parts of Southeast Asia remained in the Paleolithic stage until European contact.

The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Bison Licking Insect Bite ; 15,000-13,000 BC; antler ; National Museum of Prehistory ( Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil , France)
The Löwenmensch figurine, ca. 40,000-35,000 yrs BP, discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel , now in Museum Ulm .
An artistic depiction of a group of rhinos was made in the Chauvet Cave 30,000 to 32,000 years ago.
The artist depicts a group of wild horses (from Chauvet Cave , France, ca. 31,000 years old)
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
A 16,000-year-old piece of art from the Lascaux cave in France
Magdalenian Horse, c. 15,000 BCE, Musée d'Archéologie Nationale , France
In this Gwion Gwion rock painting from Australia the artist portrays tasseled costumed figures in various poses or actions.
The Venus of Monruz is an 11,000 year-old stylized pendant, 18 mm in height.
Rock carving of Pelorovis antiquus at Tassili n'Ajjer , southern Algeria
Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands) , Argentina
Westray Wife , Orkney, Scotland