Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and ...

One-eyed Israel Litwak. a stocky little grey-fringed man, was too old to make furniture any more. At 68. he was not even up to varnishing, and so he lost his job. "Then," he recalls, ...

The cave was properly excavated several years later in 1912, when an array of stone tools and charred bones of bison were found inside, revealing that Paleolithic hunters had once frequented the site.

The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best.

Banksy also hung a sign saying the cave art showed "early man venturing towards the out-of-town hunting grounds". It read: "This finely preserved example of primitive art dates from the Post-Catatonic ...

More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

World Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France. Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses.

Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, “a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world” – a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups.

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France. Le Buisson-de-Cadouin (France) (AFP) – Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 ...