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.

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.

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.

One of the biggest and best-known cave painting is an 18-foot-wide image of an extinct wild ox, or aurochs, that seems to gallop across the Great Hall at Lascaux—and dates to around 18,000 years ...

Amateur archaeology sleuth deciphers messages hidden in Stone Age cave art for 25,000 years. ... spent his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times.

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 ...

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 discovery shakes up our understanding of the Stone Age. Many people are familiar with the African roots of the human family tree.

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.

From Stone Age cave paintings in Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, to new-age conceptual art, The Big Book of Indian Art is lavish in its scope and scale. This illustrated history, by Bina Sarkar Ellias ...

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. When you purchase through links on our ...

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 ...