A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a wild pig found in Indonesia is considered the oldest known figurative art. This ...

Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the ... of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

Long before early modern humans arrived in Europe, Neanderthals were painting in caves, leaving behind animal shapes and hand-prints. They may also have been decorating shells before Homo sapiens did.

Discover some of the oldest remnants left by archaic humans: stone tools, art objects, cave paintings, and skeletons that have revolutionised our understanding of Neanderthals and our early human ...

A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest cave paintings in Europe. This image relates to a paper that ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is ... of early human artistic culture in Indonesia from a very early point in time. “Humans have probably been telling stories for much longer than ...