What's the oldest story ever recorded by humans ... making it tens of thousands of years older than other narrative cave art in places like Lascaux cave in France. "We, as humans, define ourselves ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...

the cave paintings in Indonesia are shedding new light on the early story of humanity. Dating cave art is often difficult if the work is made with mineral pigments such as ocher or manganese ...

The scene of humans interacting with a pig painted on a cave wall ... Aboriginal art, he pointed out, where the very simplicity of an animal shape can tell a complex story. While we have lost ...

Languages: English, Spanish A prehistoric painting in Indonesia has been dated to at least 51,200 years ago, making it the earliest known example of "figurative" cave art in the world and perhaps ...

The Gua Sireh Cave on the ... sad and true story. The findings are detailed in a study published August 23 in the journal PLOS One. [Related: Neanderthals were likely creating art 57,000 years ...

The oldest known surviving picture story ... art dates in Indonesia have ever been pushed beyond the 50,000-year mark,” he said. The team also used the new technique on a painting in the nearby ...

Martin Puchner's "Culture: The Story of Us from Cave Art to K-Pop is available Feb. 7. (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Johannes Marburg) Since the 2008 financial crisis, enrollments in humanities majors ...