Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years. They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict . They also appear to have been ...

Amateur archaeology sleuth deciphers messages hidden in Stone Age cave art for ... Bacon deduced that paleolithic hunter-gatherers would store data about the animals they needed to kill to ...

Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in the Doro Nawas mountains of Namibia. Indigenous experts have been able to identify the animals in the engravings.

Cave art from ancient Yelagiri hills, Tamil Nadu, dating back over 9,000 years, reveals energetic depictions of humans riding ...

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 ...

Stone Age humans stepped out in cave bear fur 300,000 years ago ... Cave bears were large animals, about the size of a polar bear, that went extinct about 25,000 years ago.

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.

In the northern hemisphere, ice sheets up to 8 kilometers tall covered much of Europe, Asia and North America, while much of ...

The Cave Art Debate ... Some experts viewed such pieces as “hunting magic”—representations of sought-after game animals ... art or not, Conard emphasizes that Stone Age sculptors imbued ...

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago.

Breathtaking prehistoric paintings have been discovered on the walls of caves across Europe, Africa and Australasia, yet the meanings and functions of these Stone-Age masterpieces remain a topic ...

A stone artifact excavated from the cave. Archaeological Service Tschuch (AST) / BLfD The tools in the cave date to between approximately 300,000 B.C. and 45,000 B.C., according to the archaeologists.