Prehistoric horses came in at least "three coat color[s]," Ludwig says, "and exactly these three [colors] are also seen in cave paintings. Cave art is more realistic than often suggested." ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. The cave paintings of the Stone Age are not only among the ...

This is particularly true of the cave painting "The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle" in France, which dates back more than 25,000 years and clearly depicts white horses with dark spots.

An exact replica of a cave painting in Lascaux showing a bison and aurochs facing each other, along with small horses and deer. | Patrick Aventurier/GettyImages Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago ...

New genetic evidence suggests "dappled" horses depicted in European cave art were inspired by real life, and are less symbolic than previously thought. The findings are published in the ...

A partly faded clay painting of a horse’s head. A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium ...

including a wild red cow and horses. The paintings are part of thousands of intricate images that have been found since in this location and nearby caves. Perhaps the most famous of them is an ...

Unlike the bison and the rhinoceros, which both depict a body, the horse is restricted to the head and neck. Alongside the remarkable volume of paintings and engravings found on the cave walls and ...

One of the paintings in question, The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, in a cave in southern France, is a nearly 25,000-yearold depiction of horses with spotted coats. While spots are seen in many ...

Sulawesi’s rock art was first discovered in the 1950s ... For ice age European cave painters, horses, rhinos, mammoths and lions were less important as dinner than as inspiration.

DEEP inside Gargas cave in the Pyrenees mountains of ... Among prehistoric paintings and engravings of horses, bison and mammoths are hundreds of stencils made tens of thousands of years ago ...