The property will now appear on the List as Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain. The property represents the apogee of Paleolithic cave art that developed across Europe, from ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice ... in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black ...

In the Geißenklösterle cave, located in the Swabian Jura near Blaubeuren, Germany, an exceptional piece of prehistoric art was discovered in 1979: a carved mammoth ivory plaque, dated between 35,000 ...

Archaeologists found footprints of children — and even babies — in another French cave, Fontanet, where they estimated ...

If scientists are correct about the stone’s lineage, it could be one of the oldest examples of rock art known to man. To date ...

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were ... of the physical viewing contexts and other key attributes of cave art images to evaluate the ...