In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even ...

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Other art in the cave shows people who appear to be running ... To create this ceiling artwork, prehistoric artists engraved and outlined the figures and then colored them in with paint made ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Scientists have known about prehistoric cave paintings for hundreds of years. Some of the oldest ones date back to the Neanderthals over 60,000 years ago, writes History. They depict people ...

Who made the first drawings? Prehistoric close prehistoricA period of time before history was written. cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings ...

—Paleolithic 'art sanctuary' in Spain contains more than 110 prehistoric cave paintings —Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ago ...