A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

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 ...

Study shows prehistoric children may have participated in cave art because they were considered mediators between the ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

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 ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

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 ...

Read moreStudy shows French prehistoric paintings ‘oldest and most elaborate’ The Cussac cave is accessed by a narrow passage through boulders that have closed off its inner chambers for ...