THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac ... Spanish rock-shelter art, as also does the way in which some of the Lascaux animal horns are depicted.

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

After studying previously known cave paintings depicting animals across Spain, France, Turkey, and Germany, two researchers realized the illustrations weren't just drawings of nearby wildlife.

Mysterious Pigeon Hole cave on Ireland's coast is linked ... with the supernatural were conducted.” Certain animals were missing from the drawings, including big cats and fish.

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings ... One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings of animals and humans. It is believed that cave artists used paints made from nature such as rocks ...

The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why ... Archaeologists have long questioned the absence of cave art across the Levant, specifically in Israel, as opposed to the rest ...

Archaeologists discovered the world’s oldest known animal cave painting in Indonesia ... Previously, rock art found in European sites were considered to be the world’s oldest narrative ...

researchers suggest that prehistoric humans in the Levant did not create cave paintings because the primary subjects of such art—large animals—had already disappeared from the region by the ...