Celeste Paxton, a graduate student pursuing her M.A. art history, has been researching cave paintings at Chaturbhujnath Nala in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh. Paxton, who is studying South Asian ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...

An ancient image of a two-humped camel has been discovered in Kapova cave (Southern Urals); the age of the image is preliminarily estimated in the interval from 14,500 to 37,700 years An ancient image ...

Part I published as American School of Prehistoric Research bulletin no. 49, 2007. Contents The Mousterian lithic assemblages from Kebara Cave / Liliane Meignen -- Dietary and health issues of the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "major" Paleolithic cave art site in Spain that contains more than a hundred individual designs. The collection of prehistoric paintings and engravings is thought to ...

Some of these ancient drawings are found in the deep, dark areas of caves that would have been difficult to get to. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Horses, Cave paintings of Paleolithic. UNESCO World Heritage. Zestoa. Cestona. Gipuzkoa. Guipuzcoa. Basque Country. Spain. During the upper Paleolithic between 35,000 and 12,000 years ago, modern ...

Experts have discovered a cave full of prehistoric carvings in northern Spain. Among the hundreds of rock carvings, some believed to be 15,000 years old, are vivid depictions of horses, deer, and ...

A remarkable discovery from Obłazowa Cave in Poland has unveiled what is likely one of Europe’s oldest known boomerangs, crafted from a mammoth tusk. This mammoth tusk boomerang was discovered in ...

Archaeologists excavating a paleolithic cave site in Galilee, Israel, have found evidence that a deep-cave compound at the site may have been used for ritualistic gatherings, according to a new paper ...

The color blue is hard to come by. Unlike red, yellow, and white, which occur readily in mineral form, blue is a rarity. For prehistoric people living in western Eurasia, an area roughly covering ...

Machine derived contents note: Contents -- n -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Ofer Bar-Yosef and Bernard Vandermeersch 000 -- acknowledgments -- references -- chapter one -- ...