Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...

The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on the scene ...

In the heart of Lucknow, where culture breathes through narrow lanes and timehonoured traditions, an ancient art quietly endures—bone carving, a practice where skilled hands transform humble remains ...

Photo by Yana Deynega Artisans from Russia’s far north work passionately to carve figurines, knives, jewelry and other objects from mammoth and walrus tusks. For centuries, the art of the bone carving ...

Scientists: Bone carving found in Israel could be earliest human use of symbols Israeli and French researchers claim six etchings on 120,000-year-old aurochs bone must be deliberate and likely ...

The first known depiction of an animal from the Americas is an image of a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone, suggests a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Inside a German cave, researchers discovered what they say is one of the oldest pieces of art ever found. It is the toe bone of a prehistoric deer, with lines carved into, the researchers wrote in the ...

A tiny 13,300-year-old bone carving of bird unearthed at a rubbish tip has been hailed as 'China's oldest work of art' by an international team of scientists. The small bird carving, recovered from ...

A Virginia artist is making thousands of dollars not just by using his head, but using the skulls of others. Zane Wylie carves intricate designs on to real human skulls he has obtained legally, ...

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PARIS — The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on ...

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