More than 50,000 years ago, humans painted a hunting scene in a cave in Indonesia that archaeologists say represents the oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

The researchers explain, "Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of children as young as two years old. So far, most hypotheses have focused on the educational aspect ...

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Climate change and pollution are threatening to wash away the art prehistoric men and women created over 15 millennia.

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. What children's cave art tells us about life 14,000 years ago Ice-age children are behind ...

A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The ...

Several ancient cave paintings were recently discovered along the coast of Spain by researchers using a pioneering new technique. By flying drones into otherwise inaccessible mountain terrain ...

Science Archaeology Newly dated cave art tells a dark story in Borneo’s history The drawings in Gua Sireh go back thousands of years, but these depictions show a more recent tale. Laura Baisas ...

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Cave art researchers have a tantalizing new theory to explain prehistoric paintings: that the images came to life in the flickering flames of candlelight as an early form of cinema.

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...