vaunted the region as “the greatest museum of prehistoric art in the whole world.” These alfresco galleries are an eloquent ethnological record of the peoples who were drawn here through the ages.

not works of art. The problem is, many of the figurines discovered so far—predators such as lions and bears—don’t correspond to what prehistoric people ate. (Their diet consisted largely of ...

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 remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

Art lovers, historians, and cultural enthusiasts are invited to explore this extraordinary artistic journey that revives the ...

“Maybe the prehistoric man thought like that too ... Paul Taçon, an expert in rock art at Griffith University, notes that the hand stencils are similar to designs created until recently ...

The eight-mile wall of art was created by the first humans of the Amazon some 12,500 years ago Prehistoric rock art discovered in Colombia is being hailed as the “Sistine Chapel of the ancients ...

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 ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has ... The researchers explain: “Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has ... The researchers explain, "Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of ...

How uncharted caves in Greenland could predict the Earth's future How uncharted caves in Greenland could predict the Earth's future Visit Algeria’s little-known ‘museum of prehistoric art ...