These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate ... cultural beliefs and aspirations these Stone Age artists were representing. Because the paintings are often found deep inside ...

Maxime Aubert, archeologist and geochemist, uses his headlamp to examine the cave art ... maximum age. To do this would require analyzing almost impossibly thin layers cut from a cave wall ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

Carvings found on cave walls show giant bulls, stags, horses, bison and birds. No cave paintings have been found in Britain, but Stone Age Britons probably painted scenes like the ones found at ...

Other artistic relics of Stone Age peoples, especially in the Old World, include carved figurines, cave paintings, and beaded clothing. France's Solutrean culture of 23,000 to 18,000 years ago is ...

Over the course of three research seasons in the small Hučivá Diera cave in the Belianske Tatry ... most of the buried hearth from the Stone Age and discovered a wide range of chipped stone ...

Within a few thousand years, he says, this impulse spread to Stone Age France and Spain—where it turns up in paintings of bison, rhinos and lions on the walls of caves like Chauvet and Altamira.