A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

The pictures appearing on these pages —published for the first time outside of France—are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less ...

In a dark stretch of Cova Dones, a cave in eastern Spain already known for its Paleolithic art, archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 prehistoric constructions made from intentionally altered ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have revealed remarkable 15,800-year-old engravings on a set of prehistoric artifacts from the last ice age.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

A team of archaeologists from the Universitat Jaume I, the University of Barcelona, and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has developed a new methodology that allows ...

The discovery of a stone long overlooked in a German museum suggests that Ice Age communities experimented with vivid hues far earlier than scholars believed. A stone artifact from near the end of the ...