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 Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

The oldest are often constructed from hand stencils and simple geometric shapes. However, more recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in an Indonesian island, and dated to over 45,500 years, has ...

An international team of scientists reports that cave art at a site in Patagonia is the ... What is known is that life in the region could not have been easy, with little rain and scarce food ...

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

these findings show that portrayals of animals and human figures in cave art originated earlier in history than what was believed in the past. “The earliest Sulawesi rock art is not ‘simple ...