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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests Neanderthals were painting the walls of caves at least 64,000 years ago, about 20,000 years before modern humans began populating Europe.

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 recent cave art discovery in remote Indonesia is changing our understanding of the beginnings of art and the emergence of religious-like thinking in the early human story.

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.

That early humans living on the island would depict these creatures on their cave walls is an indication of their ... A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years ...