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 ...

Suspected 35,000-Year-Old Stone Age Ritual Site Found Deep Within Cave A cave in Galilee hints at prehistoric ritual gatherings in a cave that holds evidence of Neanderthal and human occupation.

Mysterious 3,000-year-old cave paintings found at 2,350 meters elevation in Rio.© (photo credit: Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation / CC BY-ND 3.0) ...

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts.

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...

From Alex Bowman, Glasgow, UK “Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture, brings to mind 16,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France.

“But storytelling of 51,200 years old is even more incredible.” Among the hundreds of caves on Sulawesi are some of the world’s oldest cave paintings.

A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium carbonate, a natural paint preservative.

Misconception: Stone Age food was unrecognizable. It turns out that prehistoric meals might not have been all that different from your last takeout order. In 1991, a 5300-year-old mummy was ...