Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

New research has found that cave art in Patagonia’s Cueva Huenul 1 cave is several thousand years older than expected, and is now the oldest known artwork in the region. The rock art had previously ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

Scientists have discovered a painting of three human figures surrounding a large pig in a cave on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Using a new technique where a laser nips off several tiny pieces ...

The oldest known example of figurative rock art has been identified in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Three human-like figures that appear to be interacting with a wild pig have been ...

So much for Europe’s reputation as the birthplace of cave art. A couple of hand outlines framed in pigment, discovered decades ago inside caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, were created ...

According to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, there is another adjective that should be associated with Neanderthals — artistically inclined. Indeed, as the scholars ...

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of our archaic human relatives, such as ...

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like ...

The 65,000-year-old cave paintings were little more than stencil-like drawings, an abstract combination of lines and geometric shapes and handprints, as well as rudimentary attempts at animal ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first artists painted images on the walls of caves. They collected, painted and ground holes in shells, presumably to wear. It was the very first art, created by ...

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