Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the....

“ Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some group in the Eyzies region invented drawing, the representation in two dimensions on the flat of the stone of what appeared in the environment in three dimensions. ”

James David Lewis-Williams

From : The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art