Painting

Prehistoric Rock Paintings

• In India the earliest paintings have been reported from the Upper Palaeolithic times.
• The first discovery of rock paintings was made in India in 1867–68 by an archaeologist, Archibold Carlleyle.

Upper Palaeolithic Period

• The paintings of the Upper Palaeolithic phase are linear representations, in green and dark red, of huge animal figures, such as bisons, elephants, tigers, rhinos and boars besides stick-like human figures.
• The green paintings are of dancers and the red ones of hunters.

Mesolithic Period

• Hunting scenes predominate in paintings.
• The hunting scenes depict people hunting in groups, armed with barbed spears, pointed sticks, arrows ....