“Maybe the prehistoric man thought like that too ... and just 900 years shy of the world’s oldest-known cave painting of any kind, a simple red disk at El Castillo. The youngest stencil ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world. More than 15,000 drawings and engravings ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has ... ancient humans bring their young children to cave-painting sites—deep underground—through dark ...

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...

This art depicts water-dependent species like the hippopotamus ... as well as the structures and mechanisms that govern these spaces, from the prehistoric cave to the existing urban fabric, in a ...

14,000-year-old footprints of at least two children, together with an adolescent and two adults, were identified some 400 meters deep in the Basura Cave in northern Italy. Elsewhere, at France’s ...

aims to recreate the experience of the Lascaux Caves, where prehistoric paintings were discovered in 1940. The caves in France's Dordogne region remained opened to visitors until 1948 when the ...

Claw marks and signs of burrowing show it was also used by cave bears, prehistoric relatives of the brown bear. Inside their hibernation chambers, researchers have found the remains of six human ...