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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...