Archaeologists are in a race against time to save a collection of undersea Stone Age cave art from rising sea levels and plastic pollution. To get to the 30,000-year-old paintings, they first have ...

In old French the word we have as “thresh ... Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and ...

The drawing of three human figures with a pig was discovered in an Indonesian cave—and might be the world’s oldest art that tells ... species is from Middle Stone Age southern Africa [around ...

One idea is that Stone Age people deliberately ... Exactly how old remains uncertain because establishing the age of prehistoric cave art is notoriously challenging. It had long been assumed ...

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might ... At least 20,000 years ago, humans living in Europe created striking cave paintings of animals that they paired with curious signs: lines, dots ...

A cave painting in Indonesia ... the same technique to reassess the age of another painting from Sulawesi, revising its age to be at least 48,000 years old, 4,000 years older than originally ...

Bacon says he believes his discovery has the power to change our understanding of Stone Age communities ... his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times.

The site is somewhat of a hot spot for significant cave painting discoveries. Previous finds on Sulawesi in recent years were dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years old, which was then the ...

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...

Artifacts found in a 20,000-year-old ice age 'ice cave' in Australia's remote Blue Mountains named Dargan Shelter could ...

A distinctive rock in the deepest part of a northern Israeli cave suggests the space may have been used for communal rituals about 35,000 years ago, according to a group of researchers that ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ben Bacon, a London-based furniture conservator, about decoding a 20,000-year-old writing system. If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick ...