The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest known are more than 44,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic), found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in ...

Why is there no prehistoric cave art in the Levant, and specifically in modern-day Israel? The study postulates that humans in the Levant during the Upper Paleolithic Age, or Old Stone Age, did not ...

September 2025 - 9 days for £5,395 per person. Embark on a captivating journey through time as you explore key Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic sites of southern France, from Bordeaux to Montpellier ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

Explore the 9 oldest-known archaeological sites, from Theopetra Cave to Göbekli Tepe, and Altamira. Dive into early human history and fascinating cave art.

A scene from Upper Paleolithic Chauvet cave ... “When prehistoric humans in Western Europe depicted large game in cave paintings, many of these animals were already extinct in the Levant ...

This engraving, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, could be the oldest three-dimensional ... The Ségognole 3 site, in Noisy-sur-École, is unique in combining figurative cave art with architectural ...