Most ancient tales, as we know, were delegated to the people who came after in the form of cave paintings and rock art. Experts spotted one such artwork in the Horned Serpent panel of the La Belle ...

The eerie stencil paintings of human hands in Spanish caves might not be from humans at all. New dating methods of the paintings suggest some of the cave art could have been drawn by Neanderthals.

Technically, these are paintings found in a cave and not on a cave, but at 26,000 to 28,000 years old, they are the oldest representational art found in Africa so far—though that doesn’t mean ...

And scholars now talk excitedly about the prospect of analyzing cave paintings in Africa. “99.9 percent of rock art is undated,” says Smith, citing, as an example, ocher representations of ...

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...

Cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi were found more than 50 years ago, but until now the dates of origin were not known. The art shown here has not been dated, but is stylistically ...

Like a painted hunting scene from at least 43,900 years ago previously found in a separate Sulawesi cave (SN: 12/11/19), minimum age estimates for the pig paintings are based on measures of ...

The Leang Karampuang painting, the researchers said, predates the cave paintings of Europe, the earliest of which is at El Castillo in Spain, dating to about 40,800 years ago.

Just as cave art shows action, objects, and modifications, human language features verbs, nouns, and adjectives. In turn, art and language both become proxies for expressing an internal mental state.

The oldest figurative painting, found in caves at the far eastern edge of the island of Borneo, depicts a wild cow with horns and dates to at least 40,000 years ago — thousands of years older ...