The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat ...

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

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western ... representational cave painting dates from ...

The cave, called Cueva Huenul 1 ... The era during which people made the art corresponds with an extremely dry period in the region, which could have led to thinly distributed and vulnerable ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now ‘s Peter O ...

In terms of dating the findings, ancient people rejuvenated a light ... fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing ... mud and berries to make their drawings. The cave drawings of people and animals are made using simple lines and shapes. Everything I do ...

Little is known about the people who created the Sulawesi cave paintings. Aubert said the paintings may turn out to be older than the minimum age determined by the new testing and possibly date to ...

So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that had fallen from the cave ceiling in an area with numerous animal bones, ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...