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,.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.