Paleolithic body paint and perhaps in ritual. Undisputed evidence of art only becomes common in the Upper Paleolithic. Lower Paleolithic Acheulean tool users, according to Robert G. Bednarik, began to engage in symbolic behavior such as art around 850,000 BP. They decorated themselves with beads and collected exotic stones for aesthetic, rather than utilitarian qualities. According to him, traces of the pigment ochre from late Lower Paleolithic Acheulean archaeological sites suggests that Acheulean societies, like later Upper Paleolithic societies, collected and used ochre to create rock art. Nevertheless, it is also possible that the ochre traces found at Lower Paleolithic sites
Paleolithic dog but morphologically similar fossil skulls that had been found across Europe and concluded that the earlier specimens were "Palaeolithic dogs", which were morphologically and genetically distinct from Pleistocene wolves that lived in Europe at that time. The Paleolithic dog was smaller than the Pleistocene wolf "(Canis c.f. lupus)" and the extant gray wolf ("Canis lupus"), with a skull size that indicated a dog similar in size to the modern large dog breeds. The Paleolithic dog had a mean body mass of 36–37 kg compared to Pleistocene wolf 42–44 kg and recent European wolf 41–42 kg. The earliest sign of domestication