To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

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 ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

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 ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

The drawings of horses and rhinoceros were discovered at a cave in Rouffignac, in south-west France. They were made by people running their hands down the soft surfaces of walls and roofs. Researchers ...

Archaeologists say the shapes of finger marks suggest that children as young as 2 years old made drawings on the walls of a Paleolithic cave dwelling, with an occasional boost from the grown-ups. The ...