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

By contrast, the gorgeous animal cave paintings in Europe represent a consistent ... Brumm and his team have unearthed evidence of fire-building, hearths and precisely crafted stone tools, which ...

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

Rock art, Itatiaia National Park, Brazil. ITATIAIA NATIONAL PARK, BRAZIL––Agência Brasil reports that ancient paintings were recently located in a cave in Itatiaia National P ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Curious, he approached it—and upon entering the cave, he found the paintings. “The first reaction was concern. I had never seen a cave painting before, so I didn’t know what it was.

Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer society that flourished in Argentine Patagonia around 10,000 BCE. Archeologists speculate that the small ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...