The paintings are mostly left hands because ancient humans used hollow bones, held in their right hands, to spray and stencil mineral paint onto the cave wall. Other art found in the cave shows hunter ...

Some of the drawings have been dated to as early as 740BC Courtesy Reniel Rodríguez Ramos/University of Puerto Rico at Utuado A groundbreaking study of ancient cave paintings in Puerto Rico has ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform ... It is on a cave wall at a farm called La Belle France. The rock art depicts an animal that sports two tusks.

Rock art located ... a section of rock wall at the South African site La Belle France, features the animal in artworks painted by the San people between 1821 and 1835. The paintings, which show ...

Without a second thought, he shimmied up the rock and tucked himself into the mouth of a small cave, where he clambered through the tunnel’s cool, musty air. He hit the back wall and saw a mural ...

Related: Did art exist before early humans? New discoveries raise big questions. Throughout the entire cave site, archaeologists counted 895 unique paintings ... onto a cave wall in Indonesia.

The art analyzed in La Pasiega, Maltravieso, and Ardales Caves is unequivocally Neanderthal. Uranium-thorium dating of rock deposited over paintings ... wall of the Roche-Cotard cave.

Flash floods and years of unusual rainfall — likely linked to climate change — are degrading ancient cave art along ... and buildup of salt on the wall paintings' surface.

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 ...