Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...

All roads lead to Belfast for the commencement of the Belfast Tradfest, which takes place from July 27 to August 3, 2025 with ...

Children participated in cave paintings because they were perceived as mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds ...

Officials at Dunbar Cave State Park reported that the oldest cave art in the U.S. was “completely submerged,” which “has never happened before.” ...

For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including modern-day Israel. This puzzle persists despite ...

Archaeologist Dean Snow's research suggests that the first artists may have been women, challenging traditional beliefs. Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art ...

The longer I sat with the artworks in David Reed’s studio, the more I felt that I wasn’t fully seeing what was there.

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we ...

The cave painting in Indonesia is also the world’s oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, according to an international team of researchers who used a new dating technique.

There are other images of pigs in the cave as well. The researchers interpreted the painting as a narrative scene, which they said would make it the oldest-known evidence of storytelling in art.

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years.

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years.