On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

Still, accurately dating cave paintings is a difficult task ... but because nobody had ever uncovered any real evidence that Neanderthals created art, the findings sparked debate in the scientific ...

The oldest cave art in the world has been discovered, but scientists don’t think it was humans who did it. Cave paintings dating back 24,000 years have previously been uncovered in Spain.