This week the Russian-born Brooklyn cabinetmaker was 78, and on his way to minor fame in the screwball wing of primitive (self-taught) art. Fifteen ... were found in a cave at Altamira,.

The story they were trying to tell is unknown, but this discovery marks the oldest Neanderthal art that humanity has ever discovered. A new study on the cave drawings has been published in PLOS ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France ... to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive ...

The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best.

Banksy also hung a sign saying the cave art showed "early man venturing towards the out-of-town hunting grounds". It read: "This finely preserved example of primitive art dates from the Post-Catatonic ...

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 ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France ... to join the adult world” – a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups. It would also have been seen “as a ...

Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups.