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

Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use of them as spaces to create art, inter the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London traces the stunning evolution of India's devotional art through 189 objects.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...