For decades, the story of art was simple: humans arrived, creativity followed. Cave paintings, symbolic markings, and ...

Dating back some 40,000 years, cave paintings are among the greatest and most fascinating discoveries of human culture. Found all over the world, including more than 300 in Europe alone, cave ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...

NEUQUEN, Argentina, March 7 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found ...

ARDALES, Spain, Aug 8 – Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for ...

Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old student, was exploring the woods in Montignac in Dordogne, southern France, when his dog named ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. For readers in Spain and parts of Latin America, Monday's Google Doodle celebrates ...

A human hand and a "pig-deer" drawn in an Indonesian cave at least 40,000 years ago put Asia in a virtual tie with Europe for the earliest known cave art. (See "Cave Paintings in Indonesia Redraw ...

Dr. Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at Leang Lompoa in Maros, Indonesia. Justin Mott I struggle to keep my footing on a narrow ridge of earth ...

When archaeologists tried out a new technique to determine the age of Spain's most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, they were surprised to discover that the paintings were thousands of years older ...