Dots, lines, and symbols found beside Ice Age cave paintings have puzzled archaeologists for decades. New research suggests these markings formed a systematic calendar used by hunter gatherers to ...

A cave painting in Indonesia is the oldest such artwork in the world, dating back at least 51,200 years, according to an international team of researchers who say its narrative scene also makes it the ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

Archaeologists in Indonesia have stumbled upon an extraordinarily old cave painting which appears to depict human-like figures in pursuit of wild pigs and buffaloes. It’s quite possibly the oldest ...

45,500 years is a long, long time. It is nearly 23 times as long as the distance between the point at which you are reading this article and the birth of Jesus Christ. It is roughly 9 times as long as ...

You report that prehistoric hand stencils on cave walls with various digits missing could represent a sign language. I am a computer scientist, not a linguist, so I have a different take on the matter ...