14,000-year-old footprints of at least two children, together with an adolescent and two adults, were identified some 400 meters deep in the Basura Cave in northern Italy. Elsewhere, at France’s ...

The researchers explain: “Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of children as young as two years old. So far, most hypotheses have focused on the educational ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...