Until a few years ago, the oldest known figurative cave painting was a 21,000-year-old rock art panel in Lascaux, France, showing a bird-headed human charging a bison. But in 2019, archaeologists ...

The site is somewhat of a hot spot for significant cave painting discoveries. Previous finds on Sulawesi in recent years were dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years old, which was then the ...

Archaeologists keep finding older and older cave art. Here’s what it could tell us about how humans evolved over time.

A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears ...

In South Africa, a hashtag-like doodle created 73,000 years ago is believed to be the oldest known drawing. Cave paintings as old as those found in Europe have been found in Indonesia, raising new ...

A man has sparked outrage in Spain after allegedly washing 6,000-year-old cave paintings so he could take better pictures to upload to his Facebook page. The shocking incident happened at various ...

It served as a canvas for rock art painting for over a 1,000 years. Its findings were published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. “These rock art sites include the earliest evidence ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

In contrast, a 44,000-year-old cave painting by Homo sapiens is more representative ... was sealed between 51,000 and 60,000 years ago, according to samples the researchers collected and dated ...

Themes: Inspirational children; curiosity; having the courage to ask questions. Summary: This assembly focuses on the extraordinary discovery made by Maria de Sautuola when she was just eight ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing ... The earliest known cave drawing of an animal is believed to be at least 45,500 years old. It was found in Indonesia. Cave artists made paints ...