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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Scientists say some of the earliest cave art found in Europe was done before humans arrived; thus, Neanderthal art, suggesting that our "brutish" cousins were capable of symbolic thinking.

The first known Neanderthal cave art, a giant, elaborate hashtag, has been discovered in Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar, Reuters reports. Researchers have made several important discoveries about ...

Famous rock art cave in Spain was used by ancient humans for over 50,000 years. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 16, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 06 / 220601142635.htm ...