The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...

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 ...