# SmartHistory of Art I - Prehistoric Art

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Humans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever technologies are available to us. But what can we really know about their creators and what the images originally meant? The Paleolithic period covers - c. 10,000 B.C.E. The Neolithic from c. 10,0000 B.C.E. - 2000 B.C.E. This book has 54 pages when printed