A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of ...

Represented in the cave are 2,000 paintings and engravings ... Among the animals are various geometric symbols, such as a collection of long, red branches and crossing lines thought to resemble ...

Ancient cave paintings, found in remote sites across ... have stepped forward to share insight into the meaning of the symbols—and to call for ethical collaboration. In many cases, this fusion ...

“It’s a symbol of strength,” he says ... and just 900 years shy of the world’s oldest-known cave painting of any kind, a simple red disk at El Castillo. The youngest stencil was ...

The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer -- are interspersed with geometric symbols ... cave painting dates from about 30,000 ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National ... indicate an intense circulation of ideas and symbols among Amerindian peoples. "It is possible that ...

Curious, he approached it—and upon entering the cave, he found the paintings. “The first reaction was concern. I had never seen a cave painting before, so I didn’t know what it was.