A psychological phenomenon where people see meaningful forms in random patterns, such as seeing faces in clouds, may have stimulated early humans to make cave art.

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural development. Ancient cave paintings, found in remote sites across the ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

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.

Leder, for his part, avoids calling the carved bone from the Unicorn Cave "art." Instead, he prefers the term "pre-art," which researchers use to describe very early forms of artistic expression.

The humble pig-and-humans painting is now officially the oldest known figurative cave art. Some older etchings on cave walls in southern Africa show mere geometric patterns, not figures.

The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.

“Smoke archaeology” reveals early humans were visiting Nerja Caves 41,000 years ago Interdisciplinary study analyzed fossilized soot and charcoal from lighting sources.

Around 13,000 years ago, humans made their way into the Amazon Basin region of South America, imparting distinct traces of culture such as massive ochre cave paintings. Revealing new information about ...

The cave art discoveries have challenged a longstanding belief that artistic expression — and the cognitive leap that fired up the human imagination — began in Europe.