Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

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 ...

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.

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World’s Oldest Cave Art Discovered, And An Outline Of A Hand ...

An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

The collection of cave art suggests that Sulawesi hosted 'a vibrant and long-standing artistic culture' during the late Stone ...

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

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

Chicago families can now experience prehistoric cave paintings without having to go underground. Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at the Field Museum this week, ...

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...