The meaning behind mark-making is a highly debatable segment that offers much broadness, anthropologists, scientists, researchers, and archaeologists classify markings based on the environment in which they are found. Markings made on objects via engraving can be considered a symbolic practice related to décor or cultural practice and not necessarily art as compared to a direct example such as a painting. Mineral pigments had multiple uses, and the presence of representational, pictorial, or abstract markings made using these pigments served as an act performed by early humans, not necessarily for survival but for artistic purposes.