From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had already gone extinct there, unlike in Europe. A scene from Upper ...

The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

Large animals on which humans depended for survival during that time were the primary subjects of cave art in Western Europe, where hundreds of cave paintings from 35,000 to 30,000 years ago have been ...

After studying previously known cave paintings depicting animals across Spain, France, Turkey, and Germany, two researchers realized the illustrations weren't just drawings of nearby wildlife.

The motifs, which depict human forms and animals, are some of the ... fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which ...

The eventual disappearance of these species coincides with the decline of cave painting traditions. In the Levant, however, this crisis never arose. Large animals such as elephants and ...

scientists reported the discovery of the then-oldest known figurative art painting, over 40,000 (perhaps as old as 52,000) years old, of an unknown animal, in the cave of Lubang Jeriji Saléh on the ...

THE discovery during the War of prehistoric paintings in the Lascaux Caves near Montignac in south ... In one or two instances the animals are painted with their tongues out-reminding one of ...