New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

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 ...

—Paleolithic 'art sanctuary' in Spain contains more than 110 prehistoric cave paintings —Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ago ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

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.