Archaeologists found footprints of children — and even babies — in another French cave, Fontanet, where they estimated ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

"Our study connects these ideas, suggesting that children joined adults on cave journeys not just as passive observers but as active participants in painting and rituals, fulfilling their role as ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

painting, and knitting, per the reports. "In fact, I didn't want to come out," she said. Flamini was 48 years old when she first entered the cave in Granada, according to the BBC and Reuters.

Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding described in the journal ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. This 45,500-year-old pig ...