A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

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

Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France’s Loire Valley ...

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating European cave art by over 10,000 years.

What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago. Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims.

Then, around 10,000 years ago, the area became more arid and hostile as a result of climatic shifts. The archaeological record in the cave likewise dried up for the next several thousand years ...

More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

The Lascaux cave paintings are some of the most recognizable cave art. They were found in the Dordogne region of France in 1940 by four teenagers. The art, which is thought to have been made around 20 ...

Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years. ... but the bulk of archaeological material dates from a 4500-year-long period about 40,000 years ago. ... as time passed, ...

The 1.6-kilometre (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists have dated them to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Skip to main content. WBUR ... What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago ...