在早期史前社会,人类的社会实践活动很大程度上受制于自然。作为实践与思维相结合而形成的审美意识的外在表现——岩画亦受制于自然的程度较高。从某种程度上说,全球环境的演变,文化周期性的发展,导致了岩画这种石文化的衰与荣,也从岩画的小环境选择上,反映出早期人类环境意识萌芽和觉醒。

In the prehistorical society, human social activities were greatly limited by nature, owing to the low production capacity and the primitive way of thinking. As rock art was the exterior expression of aesthetic consciousness which was formed through practice and thinking, it was highly limited by nature as well.Speaking from a certain extent, the environmental evolution of the whole globe and the cycles of developmnet of culture brought ups and downs to rock art and also the choice of the small environment of rock art reflected the germinatoin and awakening of environmental consciousness of the pimitive mankind.