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.

Ancient Worlds Ice Age cave paintings decoded by amateur researcher Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system.

The markings – lines, dots and “Y” marks – were found in more than 600 Ice Age images on cave walls and portable objects across Europe, according to a press release on the research from ...

Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia’s first people - Glacier landscapes may not have been hurdles for early human migration, study suggests ...

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 ...

A missing fragment of a famous Ice Age figurine discovered 20 years ago has been unearthed, presenting some puzzling questions for archaeologists. During excavations at the Hohle Fels cave in ...