A 50,000 year-old cave painting found in Indonesia tells us about the evolution of humans and the importance of visual ...

The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.

Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism ... same stock as those who created the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, France and elsewhere in ...

Researchers also speculated a possible connection between cave art and human language development. “Our results show that the paintings we dated are, by far, the oldest known cave art in the ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

Situated in southwestern France, Lascaux Cave is world-famous for its stunning Paleolithic cave paintings. Unearthed in 1940, ...

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are coated in mud.

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

But the researchers were unable to date the art due to a lack of organic matter. So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that ...