The cave is cramped and awkward ... In that sense, ancient art is a marker for this cognitive shift: Find early paintings, particularly figurative representations like animals, and you’ve ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with ... 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 ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic ...

making them examples of Europe's earliest cave art. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 15, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Alistair Pike at the ...

In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island, there is a cave decorated with what may be the oldest figurative art ever glimpsed by modern eyes. The vivid depiction of a wild pig, outlined and ...

Ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Rio de ... but the research is still in its early stages,” explained MaDu Gaspar. She added that the team had already found strong evidence of ...

Whittaker (Alice Wu), who goes off without the rest of her team to look at prehistoric cave paintings near their research site. She’s trapped in the cave during a storm, and visited by memories ...

A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of ...