A collection of red dots. These images, painted in ocher on the walls of three separate caves in Spain, are the oldest-known examples of cave art ever found. And new research suggests that all ...

As cave art goes, it doesn’t look like much: a single red dot, hidden among a scatter of handprints and drawings of animals on the wall of El Castillo cave in northern Spain. But this red ...

Vandals defaced Stone Age cave paintings in Spain, spraying splotches of orange paint on ancient figures depicting people and animals. Officials said Tuesday the attack was the third since 1991 on ...

Scientists believe cave ... red discs and red symbols in order to see whether or not dates that are significantly older than 41,000 or 42,000 can be found in similar samples from other paintings ...

Red dots, hand stencils and animal figures represent the oldest examples yet found of cave art in Europe. The symbols on the walls at 11 Spanish locations, including the World Heritage sites of ...

A red pigment disk in the El Castillo Cave is older than 40,800 years. Some researchers suspect this primitive art may have been done by Neanderthals. To make these hand stencils, the artist blew ...

Nearly 5,000 cave paintings found in northeastern Mexico were ... The first findings about the red markings that depict people, shapes and designs were revealed this week at a conference in ...