While the study of rock art has been conventionally the concern of prehistory, much of its content in the Vindhyan context is historical and requires a historical interpretation. While some of the art we have found here is upper palaeolithic, its most emphatic exposition is during the mesolithic, coupled with lithics, human and faunal remains with evidence of mortuary practices. While deer and other wild species dominate the mesolithic repertoire, neolithic-chalcolithic and iron age depictions consist of more human figures, domesticates, and material culture. Historical depictions include cognitively more advanced techniques of surface selection, three-dimensionality, movement, practice drawings, perspective, and evident themes representing hunts, iron tools, modes of transportation, and inter-group and identity-based differences and conflicts. Even later, historical material includes early scripts like Brahmi, Siddhamatrika and Shankha, done in rock art style. Medieval and modern period themes and compositions are also historical in nature and signal the final phases of painting activity.