A high-tech analysis of cave art at three Spanish sites, published on Thursday, dates the paintings to at least 64,800 years ago, or 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa.

France's La Roche-Cotard Cave may contain some of the oldest cave drawings made by Neanderthals. Researchers date the engravings to 57,000 years ago.

At another cave, El Castillo in northern Spain, the researchers found primitive art of mind-boggling age. This cave contained the 40,800-year-old red disk.

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads.

From cave paintings to carved figurines, a plethora of sophisticated artwork between 35,000 to 40,000 years old have been discovered in Western Europe. And there’s practically no evidence of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed long-lost art from a civilization that once inhabited the Caribbean. Known as the Tainos, these people once lived on the island of Mona, Puerto Rico – now an ...

There is only one other good example of cave art older than 20,000 years, at Cosquer, ... Unlike some primitive paints, there are no flakes of charcoal that can be radiocarbon dated.

Neanderthals, once considered the low-brows of human evolution, may have been among the world’s first artists, creating cave paintings long before modern humanity arrived on the scene ...

Back to homepage / Live news Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France. Le Buisson-de-Cadouin (France) (AFP) – Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and ...

Jaubert thinks the cave may have been used for initiation ceremonies, "a rite of passage for adolescents to join the adult world" -- a practice often observed in primitive hunter-gatherer groups.