The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years old ...

An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...

Modern scholars believe up to 40 percent of the general population of Upper Paleolithic ... The post Paleolithic kids’ finger painting in underground caves may have had a lofty purpose appeared ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were ... analysis of the physical viewing contexts and other key attributes of cave art images to ...

Discovering any collection of Paleolithic ... Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the ...

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ... include carved figurines, cave paintings, and beaded clothing. France's Solutrean culture of 23,000 to 18,000 years ago is noted ...

Why study Paleolithic technology ... stone tools, fire pits, cave paintings, and the like. But technology is far more than just physical items created to accomplish various tasks.

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

Modern scholars believe up to 40 percent of the general population of Upper Paleolithic humans ... “To date, around 400 caves containing cave art have been discovered, mainly in France and ...