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. Then they have ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 ...

Caves, often their deepest reaches, were humanity’s first art galleries, where early artists produced star maps, hunting scenes and friezes of ice age animals. However, caves weren’t great studio ...

IN 1879, an 8-year-old girl made a discovery that would rock our understanding of human history. On the walls of Altamira cave in northern Spain, she spotted stunning drawings of bison, painted in ...

More than 400 footprints across a diverse range of species have been identified in incredible detail for the first time, with researchers enlisting a trio of expert indigenous trackers to help solve ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern ...

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

A VR simulation showing what a Palaeolithic plaquette looks like under the flickering light of a fire. Several horses are engraved on this plaquette. As the firelight moves different horses are ...

An illustration represents Stone Age humans wearing bear skins. A new finding suggests humans skinned cave bears for clothing as early as 300,000 years ago.Benoît Clarys; Insider 300,000-year-old cave ...

Replica plaquettes were placed next to a fire to see how ambient light made stone carvings of animals appear to move. Needham et al., 2022, PLOS ONE CC-BY 4.0 Survival wasn’t easy in Ice Age Europe.