Prehistoric Paintings: Picture Gallery
Villagers Greeting a Hunter Prehistoric (~ 800 to 300 B.C) painting from Hirebenagal Caves in Karnataka | ![]() |
![]() | Rock Shelter Painting from Pachmari Prehistoric petroglyph, Central India |
Treatment of Patients Graphic based on prehistoric cave painting, Central India | ![]() |
![]() | Prehistoric Art |
Animal Motifs in Rock Shelter See Also: Pre-historic Theater | ![]() |
![]() | Prehistoric Paintings of Deer Illustration based on cave shelter painting |
Hunting Scenes | ![]() |
Elephant Hunt Cave painting of early historic period of Ahiraura depicts use of noisemakers and animals, just like the Khedda system prevalent in Mysore till 19th century | |
Prehistoric Shelter Paintings | ![]() |
![]() | The Pregancy - Prehistoric Cave Painting Point to ponder: The deer conceiving an elephant shows extraordinary imagination of the artist. Or was it his ignorance? |
Animal Motifs in Adamgad | ![]() |
![]() | Prehistoric Theater Designs based on cave shelter paintings of India |
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![]() | Prehistoric Facials |
The Migration (?) Prehistoric petroglyph, Pachmari, Central India | ![]() |
Prehistoric Hunter | ![]() |
![]() | Pre-historic Giraffe in India (?!) |
Pre-historic Rock Shetlter Painting, Madhya Pradesh | ![]() |
![]() | When the Wild Boar Attacked - Rock Painting from Bhimabetaka Prehistoric rock shelter painting, Central India shown men running away from an angry boar |
Man Hunting Beast | ![]() |
![]() | Prehistoric Theater |
Prehistoric Theater | ![]() |
![]() | Warriors, Bhimbetaka Rock Painting Men battling with sword and shields, prehistoric petroglyph |
The First Discovery of Rock Painting in India A.Carlyne and J. Cockburn first discovered the rock paintings in India in the year 1880. | ![]() |
![]() | Aiming at a Deer: Prehistoric Cave Painting |
A Border Design from Central India See Also: Prehistoric Theater | ![]() |
![]() | Stone Implements of Prehistoric Man |
Deer from pre-historic rock painting from Bhimbetaka | ![]() |
![]() | Animal Motifs in Cave Art Caves of Adamgad, Madhya Pradesh |
Line Drawings - Hunting Scene | |
![]() | Prehistoric rock painting, Benkal, Raichur dist., 1982 |
See Also:
- Prehistoric Cave Paintings of Bhimabetaka
- Timeline of Human Development -- A timeline of human development can be constructed based on the artwork the early man has left behind.




























