Hamrullah snapped a blurry photo of the rock art on his phone and sent ... Furthermore, the part-human part-animal figurines ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Other extinct hominin species have left similarly inconclusive artifacts. By contrast, the gorgeous animal cave paintings in Europe represent a consistent tradition. The seeds of artistic ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

Unlike other Paleolithic paintings, typically made with ocher ... The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s ... year-old pig painting is the world’s oldest animal art This 45,500-year-old pig painting is the ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

The 1.6-kilometer (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylized feminine forms. Scientists have dated them to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ...