A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even ...

The extinction of large animals in the Levant may explain why prehistoric humans did not paint on cave walls in Israel, new research from Tel Aviv University published on Monday has suggested.

There is no light deep in the rocky world of caves - but there is an abundance of animals specially adapted to the challenge of life in total darkness. There are caves all over the planet, but only a ...

The motifs, which depict human forms and animals, are some of the ... fragments ancient artists left in the cave. The problem is seeing the paintings. The cave ceiling is only 60cm high, which ...

cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings of animals and humans. It is believed that cave artists used paints made from nature such as rocks ...

So when, in 2007, the team discovered a large block of limestone with paintings of what look like a female’s vulva that had fallen from the cave ceiling in an area with numerous animal bones, ...

Here’s why South Dakota is the ‘undisputed queen of maze caves’ in the U.S. Here’s ... year-old pig painting is the world’s oldest animal art This 45,500-year-old pig painting is the ...