The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

What constitutes art is heavily debated, and that's especially true for prehistoric art. But here are some of the contenders for the title of the world's oldest art. Many were made by anatomically ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced by earlier hominins. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

One of the earliest examples of human sculpture has been found in Turkey at prehistoric sites believed by some to have ties to ancient biblical accounts. The digs were carried out by the Turkish ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic plant imagery in prehistoric art, flowers, shrubs, branches, and trees painted ...

The pictures appearing on these pages —published for the first time outside of France—are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less ...

Scientists discovered hand stencils in Indonesia’s caves, dating 67,800 years. This world’s oldest cave art shows early human ...

We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to ...