Abstract
How and why, in the course of human evolution, did artistic practices begin? The answer to this question is unknown and most likely unknowable. Moreover, it has become evident in recent years that the appearance of artifacts of types that we today consider to be aesthetic in intent antedates the technical appearance of our own species—Homo sapiens sapiens—by a considerable length of time. Indeed it may well be that our immediate ancestors concerned themselves with artistic behaviors upwards of a quarter of a million years before the appearance of the well-known cave murals, engravings, and figurines of southwestern Europe and elsewhere. There now exists evidence that houses of a type still common in some parts of the world today were being constructed more than 300,000 years ago.
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