For a start, modern humans might not have been the first artists in Europe, as paintings discovered in ... The real puzzle is why Stone Age cave art seems to be concentrated in a few locations.

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 ... carved into the stone or were drawn ...

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You might have heard that Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux opened at The Field Museum this week. You might have thought the curators hauled a bunch of caves to Chicago from ...

Instead of finding these fabled treasures, however, the Zerzura Club explorers would reveal marvels of another kind: thousands of Stone Age cave paintings in Gilf Kebir, in southwestern Egypt.

Prehistoric horses came in at least "three coat color[s]," Ludwig says, "and exactly these three [colors] are also seen in cave paintings ... during the ice age, when a white spotted coat could ...

This isn’t the first time researchers have suggested that Stone Age cave paintings might contain a hidden code. Among stunning depictions of mammoths and bison, there are many graphic marks ...

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...

No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at Lascaux in France. The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago.

Bacon says he believes his discovery has the power to change our understanding of Stone Age communities ... his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times.

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least ... In present-day Namibia, prehistoric peoples from the Late Stone Age put so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints, that ...