A remarkable piece of Stone Age rock art featuring a depiction of a bird has been discovered in an Italian cave, among other artwork dating back up to 14,000 years.

Most of the rock art in Finland dating to the Stone Age, that Rainio and her colleagues examined, was painted between 3,000 years and 7,000 years ago. The art that survives today uses a color red, ...

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 ...

“Stone Age artists intended to give life to their images,” Azéma says. ... a rock-art specialist who now serves as honorary conservator general of heritage for the French Ministry of Culture.

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years. ... Detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro! nawas mountains, Namibia.

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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 artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art in Namibia Indigenous trackers could identify the prints’ species, sex and age for 90% of analyzed engravings ...

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 ...

So-called mutilated hands can be seen at many other prehistoric rock art sites, ... Looking at images of Stone Age hand stencils on cave walls, it is hard not to imagine the people who made them.

The rock art shows Stone Age people hunting gazelles, wild donkeys and ibex, and it also shows their most precious possession: their cattle. Stone Age camp sites.