An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

The 67,800-year-old reddish-colored stenciled image has become faded over time and is barely visible on a cave wall, but ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

Newly discovered rock art sites in Sulawesi, Indonesia, that date to nearly 68,000 years ago are thought to be the oldest ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

The world’s oldest rock art, found in an Indonesian cave, offers new insight into the arrival of the first humans in ancient ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Though it now exists only as a centimeters-wide fragment, the stencil is a landmark find.