| The inception of the Upper Paleolithic Age (the last | | | | mouth or by using hollow bones. Special effects, |
| subdivision of the Old Stone Age) was a turning | | | | such as shadowing and foreshortening were also |
| point in human history, when human competence | | | | imparted with great skill and perfection. |
| started rising. The tools of the old age gave way | | | | An abundance of female imagery is found in the |
| to the new thinner, sharper, and more evenly | | | | Upper Paleolithic Age painting, supporting the belief |
| shaped ones. This evolution in the Old Stone Age | | | | of archeologists that the society of that era was |
| became conducive to the development of art | | | | female centered. These images also contain the |
| also, with all its ramifications into the figurative and | | | | pornographic representation and portraits of |
| the non-figurative styles. | | | | women. The other important theme for artistic |
| Art in the Upper Paleolithic Age was born in the | | | | capturing was wild hunting, depicting a handful of |
| form of perforated teeth, which found extensive | | | | men with wild beasts and similar themes. |
| use in the form of necklaces. Sculpted bones with | | | | In addition, evidences suggest that the Paleolithic |
| engraved animal statuettes and ivory works were | | | | Age witnessed the birth of music, which was |
| the other existent art forms. The other type of | | | | characterized by human voices and natural |
| art that was fixed or stationary in nature was | | | | objects, such as the use of rocks as musical |
| 'Cave Painting.' It is believed that these paintings | | | | instruments. The development in language might |
| served magical or ritualistic purposes. These | | | | have boosted the evolution of music. One school |
| pictures often give a good idea about the lifestyle | | | | of thought holds the opinion that music found |
| of the Upper Paleolithic Age through the portrayal | | | | place in human life in the Old Stone Age to |
| of hunting and fight scenes. The characters in | | | | produce a rhythm in day-to-day activities. |
| these images were simple in structure, mostly | | | | However, a different theory proposed by Charles |
| stick figures. | | | | Darwin, suggested that the use of music was |
| The colors used in paintings were made from | | | | more of a mating strategy, as birds do to call |
| ochre, minerals, burnt bone meal, and charcoal, | | | | their mates. Later in the Paleolithic Age, hollow |
| mixed with water, tree sap, blood, & animal | | | | bones were being used as flutes and other |
| fat. The Upper Paleolithic Age artists used either | | | | musical instruments. Music must have played a |
| hairbrushes or twigs as tools. There was a great | | | | greater role in religious rituals and social gatherings |
| use of fingers as well in paintings. Apart from this, | | | | during the Old Stone Age or the Upper Paleolithic |
| the other methods used for artistry were | | | | Age. |
| daubing, sketching, dotting, and spray painting by | | | | |