Drawings and paintings of animals on the walls of caves apparently played a part in religious rituals, and they were believed to possess great magical powers.
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| Prehistory, which occurred about 30000 BC, is the time before written records appeared. However, since that time, early people found the need for communication. The early ways used for communicating information by those early people were most probably by sounds and gestures. Experts who study language and prehistoric ways of life think that language developed gradually and began at first as an imitation of sounds in nature, such as the barking of certain animals and the howling of the wind. | |
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The first steps towards written language were paintings and drawings, also known as Paleolithic art, the earliest art. This occurred during the late Paleolithic or Old Stone Age period. Prehistoric artists began to use a series of pictures to tell a story, such as the story of a good hunting trip or a violent storm. Gradually, people developed a system of small pictures that stood for most common objects and ideas. Such a system is known as pictographic writing. |
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Drawings and paintings of animals on the walls of caves apparently played a part in religious rituals, and they were believed to possess great magical powers. |
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