From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Probably the Earliest Known Examples of Paleolithic Art (Circa 70,000 BCE)

Pieces of ochre rock decorated with geometric patterns found at Blombos Cave in South Africa, nearly 200 miles from Cape Town, in 2002, have been dated to the Middle Stone Age, equivalent to the European Middle Paleolithic, or roughly 70,000 BCE. These may be the earliest known examples of paleolithic art.