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

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s ...

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

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 ...

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

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Carved 20,000 years ago into a French cave floor, the world’s oldest 3D map may reveal not just rivers and hills — but the ...

"Słupcio" — or "little guy from Słupsk" in Polish — is the name given to the amber bear in 2013, when a Polish kindergartner ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave ... area of the Upper Danube River as an important center of cultural innovation during the Upper Paleolithic period ...

The amber bears may be further evidence of the Paleolithic tradition of representing animals in cave paintings and portable objects, and they also show that people shifted their hunting from ...