Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ... and at others painted directly onto the cave wall. They were made at a time when Western ...

The discovery that Neanderthals and not Homo sapiens likely created the artwork is challenging ... by placing their hands on the stone walls of the cave and blowing pigment around them.

The cave is cramped and awkward ... which look as if they are reaching right out of the wall. Rock art is “one of the most intimate archives of the past,” Aubert once told me.

The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

This bizarre Patagonian cave remains shrouded in mystery. Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer society that flourished in Argentine Patagonia around ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...

“You couldn’t get more female than this,” says Nicholas Conard, the Ohio-born archaeologist whose University of Tübingen team found the sculpture at the bottom of a vaulted cave in ...