Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

The Magdalenian cultures came from western Europe and date from around 17,000 to 12,000 years ago. They are mainly known for their cave paintings featuring individual sculptures of animals and people.

Engravings from nearly 16,000 years ago peel back the curtain on ancient European society - Hundreds of stones found with etchings reveal practices of the Stone Age Magdalenians ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.

Ben Bacon, a furniture restorer by day, spent his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times. His hobby led to the "first specific reading of European Upper ...

Stone Age cave art is a wonder in many ways. Published 29 March 2023. From Alex Bowman, Glasgow, UK “Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture ...

Put forward in January 2023, the hypothesis focuses on European rock art from the Upper Paleolithic, most of which was created between 45,000 and 12,000 years ago.

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on ...

They found a Stone Age surprise instead In the 1930s, a group of adventurers stumbled upon the caves of Gilf Kebir in Egypt. What they found inside sparked a scientific sensation.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick ...

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years. ... Detail of Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in Doro! nawas mountains, Namibia.