Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

As David maintains minimal social media presence, remarkably little is publicly known about his personal affairs. He is ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

The forested hills above Montignac in southwestern France hold no obvious clues to one of archaeology’s most pivotal finds.

At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient artists to the digital age.

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind those famous cave paintings in France and Spain. But new discoveries in Indonesia are shaking that idea up and rewriting the story ...

Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...

PARIS — A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said on Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to ...