Cave paintings can tell us a lot about the people who painted them. For starters, they indicate that a particular culture made time for art. They also tell us that these people valued art as well as ...

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought.

You had to hold your breath and dive a little to get through.” These were the words of Russian speleologist Katiya Pavlova, describing the instant she and guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas pushed through a ...

"It's abuse to our country and it's abuse to our history. What's gone is gone and we're never going to get it back." Indigenous groups in South Australia are heartbroken after cave art in one of their ...

Perhaps people in Africa were already decorating ... And scholars now talk excitedly about the prospect of analyzing cave paintings in Africa. “99.9 percent of rock art is undated,” says ...

What is certain, though, is that the creation of Lascaux’s cave paintings must have been a group effort. Multiple people would have been required to build the scaffolds or perches, hold torches ...

Little is known about the people who created the Sulawesi cave paintings. Aubert said the paintings may turn out to be older than the minimum age determined by the new testing and possibly date to ...

Little is known about the people who created the Sulawesi cave paintings. Aubert said the paintings may turn out to be older than the minimum age determined by the new testing and possibly date to ...

These people came from the same stock as those who created the famous cave paintings at Lascaux, France and elsewhere in Europe. Archaeologists made the discovery in the Maszycka Cave in southern ...

There is even evidence of people representing their sign language ... This isn’t the first time researchers have suggested that Stone Age cave paintings might contain a hidden code.

In 1926, the remote area was mapped by European cartographer László Almásy who stumbled upon two "side-by-side shallow caves" adorned with hundreds of rock paintings of animals and humans ...

July 3 (Reuters) - On the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered artwork depicting three human-like figures interacting with a wild pig in ...