Researchers say modern humans in the area did not see the ritualistic purpose of painting on cave walls, unlike their ...

A single cave appears to host three very different styles of ancient art, two of them unlike anything else known from the ...

The artists created the prints by placing their hands on the stone walls of the cave and blowing pigment ... in an attempt to determine the age of the hand paintings. This involved analyzing ...

This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse onto a piece of ...

Other artistic relics of Stone Age peoples, especially in the Old World, include carved figurines, cave paintings, and beaded clothing. France's Solutrean culture of 23,000 to 18,000 years ago is ...

Despite 100 years of archaeological excavation, not one cave painting from the Upper Paleolithic period at the end of the so-called Old Stone Age has yet been discovered in Israel or anywhere else ...

Excavations earlier this year revealed several stone tools in the cave that date back tens of thousands of years. "Nowhere in the world can we find rock art of ... middle stone age - have been ...

Over the course of three research seasons in the small Hučivá Diera cave in the Belianske Tatry ... most of the buried hearth from the Stone Age and discovered a wide range of chipped stone ...

A London furniture conservator has been credited with a crucial discovery that has helped understand why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings. Ben Bacon analysed 20,000-year-old markings ...