Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

For tens of thousands of years, prehistoric paintings have survived in the caves of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island, offering an invaluable record of early humanity’s creative impulses. Now, those ...

Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a limestone cave on Indonesia's island of Sulawesi is a sacred slice of history. Apainting of humans with animal ...

World’s Oldest Cave Art Discovered, And An Outline Of A Hand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers ...

Cave paintings created around 40,000 years ago on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, among the world's oldest cave art, are being destroyed by the climate crisis. A new study conducted by ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record. The painting was ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

ARDALES, Spain, Aug 8 – Neanderthals may have been closer to our species of prehistoric modern human than previously believed after cave paintings found in Spain proved they had a fondness for ...

Ancient cave decorations can be breathtaking to behold, but new research claims the artists may have been starved of oxygen when they were painting. Analyzing cave paintings from the Upper Paleolithic ...