Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

Stone Age cave art is a wonder in many ways. Published 29 March 2023. From Alex Bowman, Glasgow, UK “Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture ...

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago.

Greg Jenner is joined in the Stone Age by Dr Isobel Wisher and comedian Seán Burke to learn all about cave art and the people who made it. Show more Greg Jenner is joined in the Palaeolithic era ...

Amateur archaeology sleuth deciphers messages hidden in Stone Age cave art for 25,000 years. ... spent his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times.

Breathtaking prehistoric paintings have been discovered on the walls of caves across Europe, Africa and Australasia, yet the meanings and functions of these Stone-Age masterpieces remain a topic ...

Stone Age kids painted caves as spiritual mediators ... Finger paintings made by children in Rouffignac Cave, 14,000 to 20,000 years ago. Photo courtesy of Dr. Van Gelder. The study, published in the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick ...

In 2018, researchers from the University of Southampton analyzed hand silhouettes painted on the wall of the Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, and determined that they may have been created by ...

No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at Lascaux in France. The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago .

Around 4,000 years ago, Neolithic painters in south-eastern France immortalized warriors, battle scenes and burials on a cliff. Now 120 of their works have just been discovered.