Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by ...

Now, with the Borneo cave art, ... The earliest cave etchings have been found in Africa and include abstract designs, like crosshatches, dating to around 73,000 years ago.

Their art appears to have been less about individuals and more about communities, using shared signs such as those engraved onto lumps of ochre in Blombos cave in South Africa, like tribal designs.

World's Oldest Cave Paintings Show Neanderthals Were Making Art More Than 20,000 Years Before Modern Humans Published Feb 23, 2018 at 11:18 AM EST Updated Oct 04, 2018 at 11:08 AM EDT Panel 78 in ...

Pike said that raises three scenarios: El Castillo's modern humans might have developed their cave-painting skills during their migration out of Africa, and put it to use when they arrived in Europe.

The Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, is famous for the 71 prehistoric hand paintings found on its walls. In 2018, researchers determined that the silhouettes were the first major evidence that ...

An older, non-figurative art piece attributed to our species was recently unearthed in South Africa in the form of a 73,000-year-old cross-hatched pattern drawn onto a smooth rock.

LOS ANGELES -- In a tiny South African cave, archaeologists have unearthed a 100,000-year-old art studio that contains tools for mixing red and yellow rock ...

New research suggests Neanderthals were painting the walls of caves at least 64,000 years ago, about 20,000 years before modern humans began populating Europe.

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

The painting, made with strokes of red ocher on the interior cave walls, was discovered in December 2017 by local archaeologist Basran Burhan, currently a Ph.D. student at Australia's Griffith ...