At 45,500 Years Old, This Ancient Cave Painting Tells Us About Early Humans Not knowing if it was made by Neanderthals or Homo erectus, these symbols on caves at least 45,500 years ago are a ...

The eerie stencil paintings of human hands in Spanish caves might not be from humans at all. New dating methods of the paintings suggest some of the cave art could have been drawn by Neanderthals.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art. September 21, 2023 0 ...

Replica of drawing of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave. Art in the cave has been identified as created by early modern humans. Wikimedia image. The ability to draw, like many things, is often thought ...

Palmira Saladié : "The vertebra shows sharp incisions at important anatomical points for the disarticulation of the head".

However, Guidon contends the primitive civilization’s cave art provides enough evidence of early human activity. "When it [cave art] began in Europe and Africa, it did here too," she said. The ...

And in 2014, the same Griffith University researchers from the new study found the oldest known cave paintings produced by early modern humans—a series of hand stencils dating back some 40,000 ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prehistoric paintings at least 40,000 years old that depict animals - including one known as a "pig-deer" - and the outline of human hands in seven caves on ...

The pairing of painting and sound by ancient humans, ... Art and language can be proxies for expressing an internal mental state — by creating cave art, the researchers write, these early ...

A 51,200-year-old cave painting was uncovered on an Indonesian island, ... The findings indicated that the underlying artwork was created at least 51,200 years ago by early humans, ...