A new discovery that Neanderthals were painting cave walls more than 64,000 years ago has anthropologists rethinking the history of art. Found deep in Spanish caves, the rock art was once thought ...

It’s no good for studying inorganic pigments like ocher, a form of iron oxide used frequently in ancient cave paintings. This is where Aubert comes in. Instead of analyzing pigment from the ...

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 ...

Some of the great wonders of the artistic world are the cave paintings in ... Spanish Levantine rock art. This team has carried out the first genomic analysis of the bacterial communities that ...

The analysis found that at least one of the prints ... by far, the oldest known cave art in the world, and were created at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa ...

analysis from the University of Edinburgh suggests. Photo by Alistair Coombs. What if prehistoric cave art didn’t depict animals, but constellations? That’s the new theory put forth by ...

Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art, and explores this intriguing possibility in art history. CC BY The Conversation, Hands on the wall: were the first artists ...

Many art historians and anthropologists believe Paleolithic cave wall art was done by accomplished shaman-artists, but mixed in with the finer paintings are graffiti-like scenes of sex and hunting.

Scientific analysis of paintings on the wall of a remote cave in Patagonia, Argentina, suggest they are the oldest known example of rock art in South America, according to research published this ...

A preliminary analysis of Cova Dones indicates that the cave is arguably the "most important" Paleolithic rock art site ever discovered on the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, the ...

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 ...