Cave art of a lion with a luscious mane drawn deep in a Puerto Rican cave about 500 years ago might have been created by an enslaved African, new research suggests. "We have an image that looks ...

Older still, dated to around 40,000 years ago, is the mammoth ivory "Lion Man" figurine, discovered by German archaeologists in 1939. The 2½-foot man has a human body topped with a cave lion's head.

Older still, dated to around 40,000 years ago, is the mammoth ivory “Lion Man” figurine, discovered by German archaeologists in 1939. The two-and-a-half-foot man has a human body topped with a ...

Cave art depicting a hunting scene has been found in Indonesia dated to 44,000 years old, making it the oldest rock art created by humans. Posted 10:00 a.m. Dec 11, 2019 — Updated 10:00 a.m. Dec ...

The latest care package hailing to us through deep time is a pair of extinct cave lion cubs found in the Sakha Republic of Yakutia. Believed to be at least 10,000 years old, the Siberian lions ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought ...

Cave Art: Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated ...

His book follows heckit, a queer mountain lion that lives in L.A. and reflects upon the humans of the city. “I try to understand people but they make it hard,” the cat laments early in the book.

New evidence of European cave art’s early origin fits a scenario in which wall drawings and other symbolic behaviors extend far back in the Stone Age (SN: 8/13/11, p. 22).