Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

The dating of an exceptionally old cave painting of animals that was found recently on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is reported in our paper out today. The painting portrays images of the ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record. The painting was ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The astonishing ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DIRECTOR OF PREHISTORIC CAVE OF ARDALES PEDRO CANTALEJO SAYING:"They are always red marks made with iron oxide, applied with the fingertips or with an airbrush. The dimensions ...

A team of cave explorers discovered a prehistoric mural depicting animals and stars in northeastern Spain. Photo from the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution A rare and ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like ...

Adam Brumm receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Geographic Society. Adhi Agus Oktaviana is a researcher at Indonesia's Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional (National ...

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 ...