Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have used cave art to track the mating and birthing seasons of local fauna, Anna Gibbs reported in “ Ice Age cave art may be a calendar ” (SN: 2/11/23, p. 16).

Cave art dates back 14,000 years. (Courtesy of Izzy Wisher/Gobierno de Cantabria) Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims.

The entrance to an Ice Age cave that nobody has entered for 16,000 years has been discovered in southern Germany. During excavations in the town of Engen, in the district of Konstanz, a team led ...

It's part of a larger network of caves in the Swabian Jura. Art and other discoveries from the caves suggest they provided shelter for Ice Age humans about 33,000 to 43,000 years ago.

Radically rethinking this approach, the exhibition unites a selection of remarkable Ice Age artworks made some 24,000 to 12,000 years ago with art from much more recent centuries, including a ...