Discovered over a century ago, the late Upper Paleolithic archeological site included stone and bone tools, evidence of ...

Painting from three cave sites, a red linear motif in Cave of La Pasiega, a hand stencil in Maltravieso Cave, and red-painted speleothems in Ardales Cave, was found to be more than 64,000 years old.

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic ... when Western Europe was dominated ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Chauvet cave in southeastern France has drawings and engravings that date to around 32,000 years ago, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The cave's interior includes ...

Even more than the cave art, these first concrete expressions ... handprints—once thought of as an invention of the European Upper Paleolithic—were recently shown to be almost 40,000 years ...