Given migratory behavior, the rock shelters would have been occupied only during part of the year, with most of the time being spent in the open or in temporary shelters constructed from tree branches. The artists were likely migratory to some extent, following food animals which moved according to the vagaries of water and vegetation. Assuming the vegetation was similar to modern Indian vegetation, and assuming their eating habits are similar to modern tribal peoples, the paleolithic peoples ate roots, tubers, bulbs, flower buds, wild grains, legumes, fruits, nuts, berries, honey, small fish, minnows, lizards, snakes, frogs, crawfish, beetle grubs, ant eggs, birds and their eggs, rabbits squirrels, monkeys, the newborn of the antelope, deer, and wild boar, and the occasional mongoose, turtle, peacock, and porcupine. Given the prevalence of easily acquired food, there was no need to hunt larger, and significantly more dangerous, animals like the elephant or rhinoceros. Stoneworking provides cutting tools, including inverted arrow points, spear points, blades, awls, and scrapers.
Crude pottery is introduced, allowing food to be boiled instead of roasted on a fire.
Fishing using harpoons begins. Dogs are domesticated. Shelter paintings become more common. Large animals like the rhinoceros and elephant were likely painted as objects of worship or fear. Elephants are quite dangerous during the mating season, and rhinoceros have little fear of anything.