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

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

Other extinct hominin species have left similarly inconclusive artifacts. By contrast, the gorgeous animal cave paintings in Europe represent a consistent tradition. The seeds of artistic ...

Unlike other Paleolithic paintings, typically made with ocher ... The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

The Lascaux cave paintings were created around 14,000 years ago. They show animals as well as some human hunters. Some historians believe that Stone Age paintings had a religious meaning.