Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

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 ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

In the early 1930's, a French officer made a sensational discovery in the south-east of the present-day Republic of Algeria. In the Tassili highlands, lie found rock paintings which scientists have ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

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 ...

The researchers discovered tiny handprints and footprints of two-year-old toddlers, alongside those of adults.

But the researchers were unable to date the art due to a lack of organic matter. So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that ...

The discovery of the “Venus of Hohle Fels”—named by Conard for the cave where it was found—made ... not works of art. The problem is, many of the figurines discovered so far—predators ...