Archaeologists in Poland have discovered widespread evidence of cannibalism among prehistoric humans who gathered in Maszycka ...

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 ...

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

The cave gets its name from rock art that depicts people who appear to be swimming. Other art in the cave shows people who appear to be running, walking or engaged in other activities.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

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, ...