It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The stencil, which had remained largely unnoticed amidst more recent paintings of animals and figures, is now the oldest artwork ever discovered. In fact, it is so old that it offers a rare glimpse ...

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

IN 1879, an 8-year-old girl made a discovery that would rock our understanding of human history. On the walls of Altamira cave in northern Spain, she spotted stunning drawings of bison, painted in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prehistoric paintings at least 40,000 years old that depict animals - including one known as a "pig-deer" - and the outline of human hands in seven caves on the Indonesian ...

Pittsburgh, Pa., USA: In the karstic caves of Puerto Rico, cave art paints the rock walls. Previous research has assigned ages to this art based on the ages of nearby archaeological artifacts within ...

THE discovery of a faded hand outline on a cave wall in Indonesia may represent the world’s oldest known rock art, rewriting ...