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

Ochre body paint may have been a form of prehistoric sunscreen that helped early humans survive a sudden increase in ...

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

“Maybe the prehistoric man thought like that too ... Paul Taçon, an expert in rock art at Griffith University, notes that the hand stencils are similar to designs created until recently ...

not works of art. The problem is, many of the figurines discovered so far—predators such as lions and bears—don’t correspond to what prehistoric people ate. (Their diet consisted largely of ...

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 ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

Spanning over 700 shelters, with nearly 400 adorned in vivid prehistoric paintings, this UNESCO World Heritage Site reveals human life from the Lower Paleolithic to the historic era. The paintings ...