Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

The world’s oldest known rock art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered in an Indonesian cave.

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

The world’s oldest rock art, found in an Indonesian cave, offers new insight into the arrival of the first humans in ancient ...

This account of ancient rock art in Eurasia, Arabia and the Sahara attempts to discover the beliefs of the people who created ...

In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, archaeologists have shed light on the meaning of ancient rock art from the Amazon rainforest in a study. A trio of researchers has been ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

You could say that Mill Valley artist George Mead’s paintings hold a larger-than-life place in the history of rock art. For music fans of a certain boomer vintage, he may be best remembered for the ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...