A fascinating new study suggests that ancient rock art in South Africa may depict a now-extinct species. According to research published in September 2024, the mysterious tusked animal in the artwork ...

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

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were ...

Bilbao, Spain is a popular study abroad location for University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire business and Spanish students, but is ...

A unique carved amber bear was found when workers were delving into the peat in 1887. It is believed that this was worn as a protective charm during the Stone Age, as bears were considered the most ...

New York-born artist SaraNoa Mark evokes such questions with their exhibition “Evaporated Hours” at Dreamsong Art Gallery in ...

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

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

Finger paintings made by children in Rouffignac ... The paper, “Child in Time: Children as Liminal Agents in Upper Paleolithic Decorated Caves,” was authored by Ella Assaf, Yafit Kedar, and Ran Barkai ...

A team of Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University, trying to unravel what the children were doing in these ancient underground ... around 400 caves containing cave art have been discovered ...

Sometime between 6,500 and 7,000 years ago, an Indigenous hunter scrambled into a cave on what is today a ... with poison and part of an atlatl, an ancient throwing system that acts to extend ...

Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern ... in the creation of cave art. By integrating data from these research fields, we were able, for the first time, to propose a novel ...