About 25,000 years ago, humans began painting ... horses more vulnerable to predators. The researchers speculate that the gene might have been beneficial during the ice age, when a white spotted ...

However, why the horse loomed so large in ancient minds ... has been compiling a database of European Stone Age (or Palaeolithic) art. Today that database contains information on more than 4700 ...

Ancient cave paintings that seemed to depict make-believe white-spotted horses might have been drawn from real life, scientists now find. The cave paintings of the Stone Age are not only among the ...

Several horses are engraved on this plaquette ... with implications for the emergence of cave art. This latest study focuses on the carved stone plaquettes rather than cave art, but both involve ...

Born April 13, 1930, in St. Louis, Stone's family moved to Los Angeles when he was 3. He studied art at the Otis Art Institute ... racing and once I studied horses, they becamse individuals ...

Bacon says he believes his discovery has the power to change our understanding of Stone Age communities ... his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings, according to The Times.

Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped ... Although Paleolithic cave art is better known for its graceful horses and ghostly handprints, there are thousands of nonfigurative or abstract marks that ...

Image caption, This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse ...

Those excavations uncovered tools made from stone and bone, as well as jewelry and art ... horses, cave lions and mammoths, allow conclusions to be drawn about the animal world of Stone Age ...

The diptych remains fascinating to art historians to this day ... so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers. Fouquet rendered the rock with as much care and detail as he did ...