A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in ... its roots the entrance to a hitherto unknown cave. On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with ... The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the ...

A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. This image relates to a paper that ...

Archeologists have decoded the markings on 20,000-year-old cave paintings created by Ice Age hunter-gatherers. The results show that early humans used writing to convey information far earlier ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed ... had important implications for understanding the origin of early art. What wood could do: art students upcycle Hong Kong’s fallen trees ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now 's Peter O'Dowd talks with Isobel Wisher, a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolution ...