A groundbreaking discovery in Spain is challenging our understanding of Neanderthal creativity. Archaeologists recently ...

Splashed across the rock face ... ancient rock art sites that dot South Africa, in order to meticulously produce millimeter-accurate copies of humanity’s early forays into painting.

Researchers theorize that an adult male dipped his finger in red ocher and intentionally used the pigment to complete the face he saw on a small granite stone ...

A fragmented painting of a pig-deer or babirusa (Babyrousa ... “This raises several interesting possibilities,” says Pike. Rock art may have emerged separately in these disparate locales.

4,000-year-old rock paintings depicting ... for the prosperity and circle of life." Thousands of ancient rock markings are found in the region, and hundreds of rock art sites have been found ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock ... art. A Neanderthal man is believed to have dipped his finger in red pigment to paint ...

Five symbols that comprise a rock art site in Iduhatty, Nilgiris district, and closely resemble symbols used at other rock and cave painting ... the circle, cordiform, dot, finger fluting and ...

A painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia is the oldest known rock art in the country, according to scientists, who say radiocarbon-dating analysis shows it was created more than 17,000 years ago.

The painting was found on the ceiling of a rock shelter. The depiction of the kangaroo is part of the "Naturalistic period" of Indigenous rock art. The painting is a clear representation of a ...

Bhopal: An exhibition on rock paintings was inaugurated in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya in Bhopal and Archaeological Survey of India, Bhopal Circle on IGRMS ...