A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National ... surveying the surrounding landscape for signs of early human activity, suggesting that other similar ...

The paper is published in the journal Arts. Dr. Assaf explains, "Cave art created by early humans is a fascinating phenomenon that intrigues many researchers. To date, around 400 caves containing ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic ...

A rare discovery of 3,000-year-old cave paintings in a national park near Rio de Janeiro offers new insights into ancient ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

Ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Rio de ... but the research is still in its early stages,” explained MaDu Gaspar. She added that the team had already found strong evidence of ...