A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.

40,000-year-old cave art may be world's oldest animal drawing. The Southeast Asian island of Borneo joins a growing number of sites boasting early cave art innovation.

Scientists have found the oldest known example of an animal drawing: a red silhouette of a bull-like beast on the wall of a remote Indonesian cave. The sketch is at least 40,000 years old ...

Using a simplistic 3-D viewing technique, archaeologists discovered three new cave drawings that they believe were originally intended to appear 3-D.

Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France. Dated to: 30,000 to 28,000 B.C. | Once thought to house the oldest representational art, the more than 1,000 paintings of predators like lions and mammoths are ...

Certain animals were missing from the drawings, including big cats and fish. Cats like jaguars and pumas exist in the Colombian Amazon, yet ancient humans likely didn’t get close enough to ...

Cave paintings and rock art date back at least more than 57,000 years.They detail everything from an early form of writing to more recent dark stories of conflict.They also appear to have been an ...

Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing. Roughly 200-year-old African rock art predates the scientific description of dicynodonts.

Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. By Evan Hadingham Wednesday, January 25, 2023 NOVA Next NOVA Next.

This Gua Sireh Cave art was drawn with charcoal on limestone save walls and is dated between 1670 to 1830 CE. ... “We had clues about their age based on subjects such as introduced animals, ...

The First Carbon-Based Cave Drawings Found in France Prompt a Reevaluation of Paleolithic Art Researchers say the artworks could be up to 19,000 years old. Employee in the Lascaux Cave Replica (2022).