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

The new research has pinpointed when some of the first European art that we know of was created. According to the scientists, the earliest cave paintings in Spain (from three different sites ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock in Blombos Cave, South Africa. More famous are the figurative paintings in ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... which were then sometimes applied to outlines of figures first engraved into the stone and at others painted directly ...

Even more than the cave art, these first concrete expressions of consciousness represent a leap from our animal past toward what we are today—a species awash in symbols, from the signs that ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed ... with the exception of some controversial finds in Spain, and this is the first-time rock art dates in Indonesia have ever been pushed ...

Little is known about the people who created the Sulawesi cave paintings. Aubert said the paintings ... by the new testing and possibly date to the first Homo sapiens wave to sweep through the ...