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

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

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

The object was found at Coto Correa in Las Chapas, a site that has been known since the 1950s, when archaeologists first ...

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

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the ... of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. This image relates to a paper that ...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is ... of early human artistic culture in Indonesia from a very early point in time. “Humans have probably been telling stories for much longer than ...