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.

New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been by modern man. Some scientists say they might have ...

Analysis - A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa's Free State Province has long baffled scientists. Is it a walrus? It looks like one, but there are no such animals in Africa.

That cave art should be found in both Spain and Sulawesi "suggests to me that moving out of Africa required some quite complex development in human social behavior," Pike says.

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.

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 ...

The cave paintings were assumed to be prehistoric, ... But whether figurative art developed before the exodus from Africa or soon thereafter remains to be seen, Smith told Live Science.

Newly dated cave paintings such as recent 40,000-year-old finds in Indonesia show that "our views have been too Eurocentric," says archaeologist Alistair Pike.

In Spain's Basque region, in the Atxurra cave, archaeologists have found a group of at least 70 cave paintings made during the end of Upper Paleolithic era.