Dating the art can also reveal a timeline of our ancestors’ early cultural development ... at the height of the last glacial maximum, that humans popped up more in paintings. While it’s unclear why, ...

In Europe, art seemed to flourish soon after early modern humans arrived, but evidence for humans in Southeast Asia predates the ancient artists by 20 to 30 thousand years. As Aubert notes ...

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 ...

The world’s oldest figurative rock art has been found in caves in Indonesia ... teach us a lot about past migrations and how early modern humans and other hominins changed over time.” ...

They once roamed Europe, Asia, and Africa and were heavily featured in early human art painted on cave walls. They were domesticated in the north of the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East ...

have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. That ...

The cave art discoveries have challenged a longstanding ... said that visual culture might have been common among early modern humans in Africa and elsewhere but perhaps it was done on organic ...

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The China Institute Gallery in New York is showing ancient Chinese bronzes from the 12th century BCE to 1st to 2nd century CE ...

State-of-the-art analysis of a 300,000 wooden throwing found in Germany three decades ago, shows early humans used advanced woodworking techniques. A 300,000-year-old hunting weapon has shone a ...