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 ...

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 ...

Now, updated analysis of the cave walls suggests that these images stand among the earliest traces of human creativity, dating back between 52,000 and 40,000 years ago. That makes the cave art ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[Related: Neanderthals were likely creating art 57,000 years ago. The team dates the drawings to between 1670 to 1830 CE, which corresponds with a time of increasing conflict in the region .

An amateur enthusiast for prehistoric cave art has made a ... (wild cattle) bull that was painted on the wall of Lascaux Cave (Dordogne, France) around 21,500 years ago ... In his spare time, ...

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 ...