Dr. Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art at Leang Lompoa in Maros, Indonesia. Justin Mott I struggle to keep my footing on a narrow ridge of earth ...

Swiss naturalists Fritz and Paul Sarasin returned from a scientific expedition to Indonesia between 1905 to 1906 with tales of ancient rock shelters, artifacts and cave paintings, but few specifics.

Prehistoric cave paintings of animals and human hands in ... date it," says Matt Tocheri of the Human Origins Program of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

A realistic cave painting of a wild pig ... according to an article by Smithsonian Magazine. The dating of the picture was recently completed; scientists estimate it was painted 45,500 years ...

The cave has hundreds of cave paintings and is considered the richest ... including rituals according to Smithsonian Magazine, and to be closer to the spirits of the upper world, while caves ...

Concerns about limiting access in order to preserve Chauvet Cave’s paintings are well-founded ... in the earth,” Joshua Hammer reports in Smithsonian Magazine. It opened to the public in ...

as it showed that cave art was practiced both in Europe and in southeast Asia at about the same time," archaeologist Wil Roebroeks of Leiden University in the Netherlands, told Smithsonian.

Previously, the oldest-known figurative art was actually from a nearby cave, Leang Bulu’Sipong ... Age Europe as long assumed,” Brumm told Smithsonian magazine. To date the newly found ...

A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi of human-like figures interacting with a pig may be the earliest known example of visual storytelling. In research published July 3 in the ...

Cave paintings are a well-known and long-standing ... Her articles have also appeared in venues such as Forbes, Smithsonian, and Mental Floss. Killgrove holds postgraduate degrees in anthropology ...