IN 1879, an 8-year-old girl made a discovery that would rock our understanding of human history ... The real puzzle is why Stone Age cave art seems to be concentrated in a few locations.

For many years, archaeologists have pointed to southern France’s breathtaking Stone Age cave art as the first proof that the Human Spark had taken hold in our ancestors. Lascaux’s bison ...

The drawing of three human figures ... figurative art first evolved. “Presently, the earliest widely accepted evidence for image-making by our species is from Middle Stone Age southern Africa ...

Von Petzinger, a palaeoanthropologist from the University of Victoria in Canada, is spearheading an unusual study of cave art ... encode all of human speech, ruling the Stone Age signs out.

The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers ... as well as their general age and sex. Stone Age depictions of human footprints and animal tracks in the Doro Nawas mountains of Namibia.

When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux ... In one corner in Lascaux is a little tableau. The human is a glorified stick-figure, albeit posed skillfully, so you almost ...

Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Altamira’s rock paintings of animals and human hands made scientists realize that Stone Age people had intellectual capabilities far greater than ...

Things like art we have ... In addition to stone tools like handaxes, scrappers, and flakes, First Sculptures showcases 17 figure stones — objects that seem to have heads or human features ...

In a second section of the painting, a pride of 16 lions, some drawn smaller than the rest to appear farther away, lunge toward fleeing bison. Science News sponsorship position. Stone Age artists ...

Experts are suggesting the paintings could be between 18,000 and 33,000 years old (a period known as Upper Palaeolithic or Late Stone Age), based on the red iron oxide pigments used to make them ...

Historians have found Stone Age rock paintings and artifacts in Chittorgarh district, Rajasthan. These discoveries provide crucial insights into early human life in the region and are estimated to ...