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In the Paleolithic culture, 6,000,000 – 10,000 B.C.E., the first discovered signs of art were uncovered in the caves, which served as a ceremonial chamber, a shrine, or perhaps a council room (Fiero, 3). These cave drawings usually depicted a hunt with an image of a human hand shown in negative relief. These drawings were not only considered the art of the prehistoric years, but also the literature or the times. This is the only written or visual records of this time. Literature took on a different form around 3100B.C. as the Ancient Egyptians invented their own form of writing known as Hieroglyphics. They also invented the first form of paper called papyrus, a thick parchment type paper made of stems from reeds (Bentley, 2005).
Stone statues found in this era were usually of women who were thought of as Mother Earth. Women of the tribes were thought upon as important for the continuation of the tribe. The Venus of Willendorf statues from around 25,000 B.C.E. depicted the......

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