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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ancient humans depicted astronomical events, like the Pleiades star cluster, in cave paintings and on artifacts. The Nebra Sky Disk, from around 1600 BC, is the oldest known depiction of ...

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 ...