Although Iron Age finds were known from the cave ... the last big discovery of this kind was the finding of at least 70 cave paintings from up to 14,500 years ago at Atxurra in Spain's northern ...

Radiocarbon dating, the kind used to determine the age of the charcoal paintings ... a form of iron oxide used frequently in ancient cave paintings. This is where Aubert comes in.

A trek to the ancient caves of Niah National Park provides travellers with Neolithic burial sites, endemic wildlife and iron-age cave paintings. Experts guide travellers through Niah National Park ...

Still, accurately dating cave paintings is a difficult task. The pigments used to create them, typically iron oxides like hematite ... an attempt to determine the age of the hand paintings.

This isn’t the first time researchers have suggested that Stone Age cave paintings might contain a hidden code. Among stunning depictions of mammoths and bison, there are many graphic marks ...

The only clues to life back then come from the objects, burials, cave paintings ... it's what's left of an Iron Age hillfort, built 2,500 years ago. This is Maiden Castle. At this time, people ...

It is entirely explicable. 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 ...

Pursuing these clues, Bacon spent years collecting data from drawings and photos of Ice Age art in scientific publications. He widened his search to include not only cave paintings but also ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Results show they were the first to use a systematic calendar and marks to record information about major ecological events within that calendar Ice Age hunter-gatherers used cave paintings to ...