If true, this would make The Prince fossil the oldest known example of a modern human killed by a wild animal, and possibly ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s satellite islands called Muna. The team found a fragmentary hand stencil on ...

In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a cave full of paintings that were well studied over the years, a faint hand ...

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often ...

Researchers have found stone-age arrows with poison from a south African plant. The research shows that humans were using toxic substances for hunting at least 60,000 years ago.

Learn how two wooden tools discovered in Greece mark the earliest known evidence of humans shaping wood, moving the timeline ...