Jordan Moller, a local artist who spends his professional life "digging holes" is turning his academic rigor on the ...

Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

A magnified view of tiny specks of blue residue found on a Paleolithic stone artifact Izzy Wisher et al. / Antiquity, 2025 Researchers just found something that could change the way we envision color ...

A stone artifact from near the end of the Paleolithic period was originally identified as a lamp, but new evidence suggests that it contains traces of a blue mineral called azurite. Photograph by Izzy ...

Artificial intelligence has achieved a remarkable breakthrough by decoding the enigmatic prehistoric cave markings known as ...

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 ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France. Then they have ...

A team of international scientists has uncovered ancient hand and foot prints that may upend our understanding of early cave art. The experts believe that the impressions identified near Quesang ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

I decided to read "A History of the World in 100 Objects" one entry per day, so I wouldn't get too smart too quickly. It's written by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, and includes ...

The pictures appearing on these pages —published for the first time outside of France—are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less ...

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 ...