These newly discovered figurines dating back to 7500 B.C. are believed to be linked to the burial practices of an ancient ...

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

At the time the art was created ... for butchering animals have also been discovered. —Ancient submerged bridge in Spain reveals that humans inhabited Mediterranean island nearly 6,000 years ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the ... Well, it’s possible that we actually did make art much earlier than that, and that Neanderthals and other groups such ...

But why would ancient humans devote time and effort to such endeavors ... questions about the origins of representational art. The team pinpointed its creation to the Middle Stone Age, dating ...

An extinct human relative known as Homo naledi were burying their dead and carving cave art into rock walls some ... More recent research has revealed that these ancient cousins of ours were ...

Scientists have discovered the use of hallucinogenic drugs by humans 3,000 years ago. They believe shamans used drugs as part of rituals held at the Es Càrritx cave in Menorca. Previous evidence ...

Because most archaeologists are not art theorists, their debates have ... a few inches across, at several ancient human sites where stone tools were made. The earliest date from around 2 million ...

Artist Karen Keenan discovered she had family ties to the centuries-old practice of turning human hair into art through an ...

Scientists in Spain say they have discovered the oldest full human fingerprint after unearthing a rock which they say resembles a human face and suggests Neanderthals could make art. A Neanderthal ...

The discovery adds to a growing body of ancient art known in Southeast Asia that changes some long-standing ideas about when and where humans started showing our defining cognitive traits.

They think ancient humans purposefully put the rock art next to the dinosaurs' prints, as many of the petroglyphs are a mere 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 centimeters) from the fossilized marks and some ...