Period when people discovered fire, developed paper

from plants , and forged weapons and tools with stone,

bronze, copper and iron.
 Prehistoric Art as the Earliest Form of Traditional Media •
During the Stone Age, prehistoric people also used these
crude stone tools to create objects, which are now
considered rock art. Two kinds of rock art during the Stone
Age are petroglyphs and pictographs.
•Clay tablets, Cave Paintings and Papyrus also existed in
this era.
 PETROGLYPHS
petroglyphs" (derived from the Greek
word "petra" meaning stone, and
"glyphein" meaning to carve) is used to
describe any image created on a rock
surface by scouring, scratching,
engraving, chiseling, carving or any
similar method.
PICTOGRAPHS
"pictograph" or "pictogram" (derived
from the Latin "pictus" meaning
painting, and "graph/gram" meaning
drawn or written) describes an image,
sign or symbol which is created in order
to express some idea or information
Cave paintings are a type of parietal art, found on the
wall or ceilings of caves.
 A clay tablet is a more or less flat surface made of clay. Using a stylus, symbols were
pressed into the soft clay. It is possible to correct errors on the tablet. The tablet was
then baked until dry and hard, either by leaving it out in the sun, or in a fire. Sun-baked
tablets could be moistened and recycled.
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was
used to write several languages of the Ancient
Middle East.
from which we get the modern word paper, is a writing material made from the
papyrus plant, a reed which grows in the marshy areas around the Nile river.
Papyrus was used as a writing material as early as 3,000 BC in ancient Egypt,
and continued to be used to some extent until around 1100 AD.
 •Prehistoric Art is the Earliest Form of Traditional
Media
•Cuneiform script was a system of counting and
recording goods with clay tokens.
•Petroglyphs, Pictographs, Clay tablets, Cave paintings
and Papyrus are significant in conveying information,
messages and their expression in prehistoric age.