A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old ...

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Indonesian Caves Hold Oldest Figurative Painting Ever Found, Scientists Say Archaeologists found thousands of drawings and stencils in a warren of limestone caves in remote mountains on the island ...

Ancient artists all over the world created images featuring negative silhouettes by spraying paint against an object or stencil held against a rock face.

Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old Cave paintings of animals and hand stencils in Sulawesi, Indonesia, seem to be as old as similar cave art in Europe ...

These prehistoric ‘baby hands’ are not what you think An analysis of tiny, 8,000-year-old hand decorations in a Saharan rock shelter shows that they’re decidedly not human.

Amputation might explain some Stone Age hand stencils. “In Palaeolithic rock art, the most common hidden finger is only the pinkie,” says Collado Giraldo.

The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" painted on a rock wall in the Sahara Desert aren't human at all, as researchers originally thought, but are actually stencils of the "hands" or forefeet, of the ...

This painting of a cattle-like animal in a Borneo cave has been dated at at least 40,000 years old, making it the oldest known figurative rock art in the world. Luc-Henri Fage Hidden in a remote ...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that a team of researchers, including representatives of the traditional Marra […] ...

A painting on a cave’s ceiling may be one of Australia’s earliest examples of rock art, according to researchers who used an ancient wasps’ nest to date the art.