For example, art from the Chauvet Cave in France is dated as old as 37,000 years. But several years ago, a group of scientists started dating cave paintings in Indonesia — and found that they ...

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

Fumane Cave. Fumane Cave (Grotta di Fumane) is not nearly as famous as some of its other European counterparts. However, it's no less important in the world's finest examples of prehistoric cave art.

WASHINGTON-- Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of an Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

WASHINGTON — New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been created by modern man. Some scientists ...

The earliest examples of images depicting humans and animals interacting are found in cave art in Europe. These date to between 21,000 and 14,000 years ago. Image showing the figures of the cave ...

If you thought prehistoric cave art was just daubs of hunting scenes, you need to think again. The latest research suggests that some of the oldest cave paintings in the world were ancient ...

Paintings of miniature buffalos, warty pigs and human hands inside caves in Indonesia could be among the oldest examples of cave art in the world, a new study finds. Skip to main content.

Cave paintings are "one of the most exquisite examples of human symbolic behavior," said study co-author Joao Zilhao, an anthropologist at the University of Barcelona. "And that, that's what makes ...

Image: DNA evidence suggests that spotted horses ** probably existed at the time cave artists were painting them, for example, 25,000 years ago at this cave in Spain. (Pruvost et al./PNAS) ...

For example, art from the Chauvet Cave in France is dated as old as 37,000 years. But several years ago, a group of scientists started dating cave paintings in Indonesia — and found that they ...