Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University proposed a theory explaining the mysterious presence of small children in the depths of caves adorned with Paleolithic rock paintings. The study, conducted ...

Researchers had long assumed the art inside Font-de-Gaume in France was made with pigments that couldn't be analyzed using ...

A research team led by a CNRS researcher has for the first time accurately determined the age of the cave paintings at ...

In a dark stretch of Cova Dones, a cave in eastern Spain already known for its Paleolithic art, archaeologists have uncovered more than 100 prehistoric constructions made from intentionally altered ...

Part I published as American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin no. 49, 2007. The remains from Skhul, Qafzeh, Amud, and Kebara caves in Israel provide evidence for the possible contemporaneity ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- n -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Bernard Vandermeersch 000 -- acknowledgments -- references -- chapter one -- ...