Selfhood in the Digital Age’, Vauhini Vara explores the ways in which technology affects communities, culture, and identity.

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

Art Basel reveals the 36 medalists for its inaugural Art Basel Awards, co-presented by BOSS. Across nine categories, the winners include artists across all career stages, institutions, curators ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

Credit: Midjourney. When did the first humans start speaking? Did we always have this ability, inherited from our immediate ancestors? These questions sound impossible to answer — but not quite ...

For their first experiments, researchers mimicked paints used in ancient cave art in various parts of the world. "The aim of this is to see how ELISA can be used to analyze samples while avoiding ...

Archaeologist Dean Snow's research suggests that the first artists may have been women, challenging traditional beliefs. Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art ...

In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, and it shows three human-like figures and a wild pig. The painting was dated at ...

An 18,000 year-old charcoal drawing of a stag in Spain. Credit: Dr. Izzy Wisher. Courtesy of the Gobierno de Cantabria. In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a ...

They found that it dates from the Middle Stone Age, around 130,000 years ago. For comparison, the oldest confirmed Homo sapiens cave art dates to 43,9000 years ago in Indonesia.