The imagery shifts our understanding of when and where humans started depicting imaginary figures. A researcher studying what was previously believed to be the world's oldest figurative art in a ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they claim to be the oldest example of figurative art made by human hands. An ochre painting of pigs, found on a cave wall in Indonesia, has been dated to be at ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago Ice-age children are behind some ...

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Part of the earliest known pictorial scene in prehistoric art, discovered in a cave in Indonesia. SciNews / YouTube Cave artwork discovered in a cave system in Sulawesi, an island in central Indonesia ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin ...

Radiocarbon dates from Coliboaia Cave in Romania show that animal images drawn on the cave walls are among the oldest visual art in Europe and further confirm that early humans did indeed create art.

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(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.