Institute For Ice Age Studies

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The Earliest Images (Expedition)

By Randall White
Department of Anthropology, New York University, 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10003

This article originally appeared in Expedition, the journal of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.

  1. Who created the oldest known visual representations?
  2. What are the oldest known representations and how do they evolve through time?
  3. Is there patterning in the location and subject matter of Upper Paleolithic representations?
  4. Why did people create visual representations?
  5. How did people create visual representations?
  6. Which people created (viewed) Paleolithic imagery?
  7. Do Upper Paleolithic representations constitute a religious art?
  8. What is the evolutionary significance of material forms of representation?