Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at ... above and below ancient paintings, to work out their minimum and maximum age. To do this would require ...

He’s convinced the artifacts from these caves ... about prehistoric imagery in terms of “18th-century Western European art.” But, art or not, Conard emphasizes that Stone Age sculptors ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...

Flintica is a fantasy artist and creature designer on a mission to mystify nature, inspire dreaming, and raise awareness of ...

Ochre is a clay-based pigment that was incredibly popular at that time, and was used in everything from cave paintings to personal ... spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late Stone ...

Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University. The paper is published in the journal Arts. Dr. Assaf explains, "Cave art created by early humans is a ...

Use of colours in pre-historic era Humans have been long fascinated by colour, which has played a significant role since the ...

These are the oldest artworks known to man. Some of these caves have been rated UNESCO World Heritage sites because of their prehistoric art ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans ... the last major ice age.