Emory experimental archaeologists are looking for at least 20 healthy individuals willing to devote 100 hours over about four months to learn the art of making a Stone Age hand ax. Participants ...

Amputation might explain some Stone Age hand stencils. “In Palaeolithic rock art, the most common hidden finger is only the pinkie,” says Collado Giraldo. But the stencils at Gargas and ...

While the findings reveal a lot about how Stone Age people used light to navigate caves, they also shed light on 12,500-year-old art that Intxaurbe helped discover deep in the Atxurra cave in 2015.

Detail from left panel of the Melun Diptych (circa 1455) by medieval French painter and miniaturist Jean Fouquet. The strangely shaped rock in the lower right hand corner is most likely a Stone ...

Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing. ... hand stencils, something called a tectiform that looks a bit like a post with a roof, and feather shapes called penniforms.

The Grotte de Gargas in France contains 231 hand images, 114 of which don’t have five digits. Meanwhile, Cosquer Cave, also in France, depicts 49 hands, 28 lacking fingers.

Most of the hand axes produced by the modern hands and minds of the study subjects would not have cut it in the Stone Age. "They weren't up to the high standards of 500,000 years ago," Stout says.

The discovery suggests an earlier start to the Middle Stone Age in Africa than previously documented. It also offers clues to early social networks and symbolic art by human ancestors.

APING THE STONE AGE Chimpanzees in Tai National Park in Ivory ... Carvalho/Univ. of Cambridge and Primate Research Institute at Kyoto Univ. STONE AGE ART Many cave stencils are of left hands, ...

Most of the rock art in Finland dating to the Stone Age, that Rainio and her colleagues examined, was painted between 3,000 years and 7,000 years ago. The art that survives today uses a color red, ...

PLOS ONE published the results, which knock another chip off theories that Stone Age hand axes are simple tools that don't involve higher-order executive function of the brain.