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.

A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps the oldest known surviving ...

Dating cave art While abstract art has been found in Africa dating back to 77,000 years ago , no figurative art older than those found on sites in Europe and Indonesia has been discovered on the ...

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

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 use of 3-D modeling in Alabama’s 19th Unnamed Cave “promises a new era of discovery of ancient cave art” because it reveals images that could not be perceived otherwise, the researchers ...

The earliest ever depiction of a hunting scene has been discovered in a cave in Indonesia. The rock art, which shows human-like figures hunting buffalo and pigs, has been dated to around 44,000 ...

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 ...

Belying their reputation as the dumb cousins of early modern humans, Neanderthals created cave art, an activity regarded as a major cognitive step in the evolution of humankind, scientists ...

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 ...