The entrance to El Castillo cave. (S.RECD/Government of Cantabria) Unlike France, which has barred the public from entering its greatest cave art sites, Lascaux and Chauvet, Spain’s culture ...

Spain’s sites, scattered throughout ... The oldest cave art in the world is thought to be in El Castillo, a popular Spanish cave an hour’s drive away near the town of Puente Viesgo, where ...

Prehistoric dots and crimson hand stencils on Spanish cave walls are now the world's oldest known cave art, according to new dating results—perhaps the best evidence yet that Neanderthals were ...

Reporting in Science, researchers write that a red disk painted in Spain's El Castillo cave is at least 40,800 years old—making it the oldest known European cave art. Archaeologist Alistair Pike ...

The Panel of Hands at El Castillo Cave in Spain. Researchers have now dated one of these hand stencils back to 37,300 years ago. A red pigment disk in the El Castillo Cave is older than 40,800 years.

hidden among a scatter of handprints and drawings of animals on the wall of El Castillo cave in northern Spain. But this red dot is at least 40,800 years old, making it the oldest known piece of ...

The El Castillo paintings yielded a time frame ... which appear to be the oldest types of cave paintings in Spain. If the minimum dates turn out to be significantly older than 42,000 years ...

This is the Corredor de los Puntos, El Castillo Cave, Spain. Red disks here have been dated to 34,000-36,000 years ago, and elsewhere in the cave to 40,600 years, making them examples of Europe's ...

El Castillo, El Pendo, La Garma, Covalanas, Santimamiñe, Ekain and Altxerri, which make up “The Cave of Altamira and Palaeolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain” property, are located in the Autonomous ...

Outlines of hands and pictorial scenes of fabled animals that date back 35,000-40,000 years adorn the rocky interiors El Castillo in Spain and France’s Chauvet Cave. But, as new research ...

Back in 2012, Pike’s team showed that a red dot on the wall of El Castillo cave in northern Spain was at least 40,800 years old. That was old enough to be borderline: Neanderthals were still ...

Caption This is the Panel of Hands, El Castillo Cave, Spain. A hand stencil has been dated to earlier than 37,300 years ago and a red disk to earlier than 40,600 years ago, making them the oldest ...