According to Dr. Satyanarayana, there were a good number of rock paintings executed in red ochre colour representing humped and humpless bulls and stick-type and human figures of the Mesolithic period (around 8500 BCE).
Archaeologists from Goethe University in cooperation with chemists at the University of Bristol in the UK identified beeswax residues in 3,500 year-old potsherds of the Nok culture