Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

It looks like a game of tic tac toe, but engravings found deep inside a cave in Gibraltar might be a Neandertal masterpiece. At more than 39,000 years old, the etchings rival in age the oldest cave ...

Scientists have found what is believed to be Europe’s oldest pair of shoes in a cave network in southern Spain. Known as the Cueva de los Murciélagos—the cave of the bats—the site was first uncovered ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

Newly uncovered cave art in Europe has revealed that Neanderthals were capable of symbolic expression long before modern humans arrived, rewriting the story of human cultural origins. Researchers ...

The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southeastern France. For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including ...

One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like ...

An example of the cave art found in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Researchers dated the paintings to as early as 8,200 years ago. Guadalupe Romero Villanueva Ancient art in a Patagonian cave is ...