An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

Deep inside a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a single human handprint has pushed the story of art back ...

A hand stencil left on an Indonesian cave wall at least 67,800 years ago may reveal how and when ancient humans reached a lost continent known as Sahul that once linked Australia with southeast Asia.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

Prehistoric art, as revealed by a 70,000-year-old handprint, is now seen as a fundamental human survival strategy rather than ...

Prototype of painting of the facsimile of the Chauvet cave, which contains some of the earliest known cave paintings Arc, in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images Prehistoric cave ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. At such a critical moment in US history, we need ...