must have then spread around the world. Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France. Dated to: 30,000 to 28,000 B.C. | Once thought to house the oldest representational art, the more than 1,000 paintings of ...

Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

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 that ...

The discovery of the “Venus of Hohle Fels”—named by Conard for the cave where it was found—made news around the world ... not works of art. The problem is, many of the figurines discovered ...

"This builds on our previous research, which presented cave art as an expression of cosmological beliefs and human ...

Fragments of mythology’ – 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 ...