The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

(CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest known example of storytelling in art history.

World’s Oldest Cave Art Discovered, And An Outline Of A Hand ...

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new ...

In the study, archaeologists argue cave drawings and abstract symbols form a “proto-writing” system to record animal activity in a calendar. Photo from University College London Ancient cave drawings, ...

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A new study claims that European Ice Age hunter-gatherers relied on cave markings to remember details about the animals living in their environment, reported first by BBC. The marks discovered on ...