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 ...

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 ...

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 magnificent prehistoric art discovered in caves throughout France and Spain raises many questions about early human culture. In "Cave paintings and the human spirit: The origin of creativity ...

But the paintings — which, at 40,800 years old, are easily the most ancient reliably dated cave art on Earth — could also be much, much older.

“Early cave art shows that people had advanced knowledge of the night sky within the last ice age. Intellectually, they were hardly any different to us today,” said Sweatman, of the University ...

Tourists or locals visiting a cave in north-central Mexico could endanger what is purported to be some of the earliest evidence of human presence in North America, archaeological authorities said ...

Hand stencils in El Castillo cave are older than previously thought. Image: courtesy of Pedro Saura In a cave in northwestern Spain called El Castillo, ancient artists decorated a stretch of ...

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 Indonesian island of Sulawesi are ...