A Challenge for Future Generations The Niaux Cave is a precious piece of our shared history, and preserving it is no small feat. Preservation efforts are critical to ensure these stunning paintings ...

As a result of the extremely stable interior climate over millennia, as well as the absence of natural damaging processes, the drawings and paintings have ... evidence in the cave illustrates like no ...

The Air Force is closing new applications for the fiscal year 2025 selective retention bonus program due to high retention rates and projected full execution of the program's budget. The Air Force ...

Paleolithic cave paintings depicting human sex acts are some of the first known examples of erotic imagery, but only when the mass adoption of smartphones happened in the late 2000s did the ...

In a monumental archaeological breakthrough, a series of previously undiscovered cave paintings has emerged from the shadows ... technique previously thought to have emerged only in the Upper ...

The study, published in The Journal of Quaternary Science, details the finding of Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) tools at South Cuidrach on the Isle of Skye. These tools—identified as likely belonging ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ahrensburgian-type stone tools discovered at South Cuidrach on the Isle of Skye represent the most northerly evidence of this Late Upper Paleolithic culture in ...

Mummies, too. Historians think it was a sign of elite status, royal or religious, in the Upper Paleolithic era, and from there back the historical trail vanishes; no one’s sure exactly where or ...

According to scientists writing in a new study, these people from the Old Stone Age, or Late Upper Paleolithic period, not only ventured to northwestern Scotland but may have stayed and thrived there.

Still, there are some important clues in the details. The ancient baked mudstone tools found on Skye have complex features that resemble artifacts from continental Europe in the Late Upper Paleolithic ...

There's evidence of it in the wall paintings, cave paintings that you see from 10s of 1000s of years ago, from all over the world. Our brains are processing information in order to make choices that ...

Stories describe the pouākai, a great bird said to have snatched away children. Some cave paintings appear to depict the eagle with a featherless head — another vulture-like adaptation that ...