A partly faded clay painting of a horse’s head. A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium ...

A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of ...

Sulawesi’s rock art was first discovered in the 1950s ... For ice age European cave painters, horses, rhinos, mammoths and lions were less important as dinner than as inspiration.

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...