The Lascaux cave paintings were accidentally discovered by four teenagers on this day in 1940. Marcel Ravidat, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, and Simon Coencas stumbled upon the entrance to the ...

Could these marks on a cave wall be oldest-known Neanderthal “finger paintings”? It's even more evidence that Neanderthals could think symbolically, create art.

Researchers named the latest ancient shark discovery Macadens olsoni, as a tribute to both the Mammoth Cave and Rickard Olson ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years.. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean ...

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.

Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain ...

Archaeologist Dean Snow's research suggests that the first artists may have been women, challenging traditional beliefs. Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art ...

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 ...

In Cosquer cave, some hand stencils have been dated directly and they, too, came in at 27,000 years old – as did one in a cave in Indonesia, which is missing its fourth and fifth digits.

The cave art has been radiocarbon dated back to between 27,000 BP (before present, or before 1950 to be exact) to 19,000 BP, at which point the sea level was much lower.

Archaeologists in Spain have discovered prehistoric paintings in hard-to-reach caves in the east of the country using drone technology.. The use of drones allowed researchers to quickly gather ...