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

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

Hundreds of carvings of prehistoric animals, and women, line a cave in southwest France. For 4 weeks a year researchers are ...

Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use of them as spaces to create art, inter the ...

The 1.6-kilometer (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylized feminine forms. Scientists ...

These paintings were the oldest dated cave paintings in the world and included mainly red and black paintings. There were images of various animals, linear signs, geometric shapes, hand stencils ...

The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago. They show animals as well as some human hunters. Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning.

especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for ...

So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that had fallen from the cave ceiling in an area with numerous animal bones, ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s ... caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig painting is the world’s oldest animal art This ...