This abstract cave carving is possibly the first known example of Neanderthal rock art. The etching covers an area of about 47 square inches (300 square centimeters). (Image credit: Stewart Finlayson) ...

The glyphs depict anthropomorphic figures, animals, and abstract shapes, and were incised in the cave ceiling between the 2nd century and 10th century, according to the researchers’ calculations.

Ruth Blasco and colleagues discovered an abstract pattern engraved in the rock of Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar. The cross-hatched pattern was overlain by undisturbed sediment in which Neanderthal ...

The 65,000-year-old cave paintings were little more than stencil-like drawings, an abstract combination of lines and geometric shapes and handprints, as well as rudimentary attempts at animal ...

40,000 year old Indonesian cave art may be ... It simultaneously demonstrates that humans had mastered the ability to abstract images from the actual items they represented and had begun to ...

This handout photographreleased by Griffith University, Dec. 11, 2019, shows cave art inside Bulu Sipong 4, Sulawesi, Indonesia. The image depicts a hunting scene painted 44,000 years ago, the ...

Now, with the Borneo cave art, ... The earliest cave etchings have been found in Africa and include abstract designs, like crosshatches, dating to around 73,000 years ago.

Their art was perhaps more abstract than the stereotypical figure and animal cave paintings Homo sapiens made after the Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago.

The art, discovered deep in a cave in Alabama, was created by Native Americans who lived sometime between 660 and 949 AD, researchers said.

The Lascaux cave drawings in France have survived for 17,000 years but are now endangered by encroaching black mold spots, the latest in a series of threats unwittingly brought in over the years ...