In 1935 anthropologist Mary Leakey and her husband Louis went to Tanzania where they first saw prehistoric paintings on the sheltered surfaces of cliffs and rock outcroppings that were created ...

Stone Age people may have gathered at night to watch animated “fireside art” VR simulations showed firelight would make images on engraved stones move and flicker.

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern Germany show what they were capable of.

Student deciphers 'cave art': 'Stone age art' in Upper Franconian cave not an archaeological sensation after all. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 ...

Humans Stone Age Europeans may have gathered to watch animations by the fire. The campfire was a social hub for ancient humans, and a virtual reality investigation suggests that the flickering ...

The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what is now Namibia during the late Stone Age as far back as 5,000 years ago, but potentially more recently—engravings are notoriously difficult ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads.

The most popular musical events of the Stone Age might have taken place in torch-lit caves next to walls covered in art, according to new archaeological research in France. The 12,000-year-old ...

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years. They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict . They also appear to have been ...

Photo by Prof Saxx For many years, archaeologists have pointed to southern France’s breathtaking Stone Age cave art as the first proof that the Human Spark had taken hold in our ancestors ...

A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code ...