Spotted Horses and Human Hands found in modern day France, 25,000 - 24,000 BCE Link to this article: Yes, there were spotted ponies , for your interest Learning Objectives: i. The variety of works found in diverse continents ii. Materials used and their application iii. Understand how the visual 'record' infers social and cultural information about the makers who made them iv. Connect the works to Formal Elements & Principles of Design p. 19 Prehistory = Human existence before the emergence of writing. These individuals were not making "art" nor were they "artists." What we have found thus far, is only a very tiny portion of what was probably created on a very wide scale. Stokstad's text reports Homo sapiens appeared about 200,000+ years ago. Our sub-species to which we belong is Homo sapiens sapiens appear about 120,000 BCE. Archaeological evidence has made it clear that modern humans spread from Africa acro