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Prehistory is the time before writing, so without written records we can not know who created prehistoric works of art or why they created them.

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Although prehistory is the period before writing, it’s not true that we cannot know anything about who made prehistoric art or why. Archaeology, dating methods, contextual evidence, and ethnographic comparisons allow researchers to identify likely producing groups, approximate dates, and plausible functions or meanings, even if we lack written records or the creators’ names.