At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...

Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by two children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art, according to an international team of geologists and ...

Beginning in the 1990s, scientists analyzed these handprints using ultraviolet photography, but technology has advanced greatly since then. Still, accurately dating cave paintings is a difficult task.

Ancient cave paintings of animals in red pigment ... ministry has also documented the presence of a series of human hand prints on the cave ceiling. Very early examples of human hand prints ...

Women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings, suggests a new analysis of ancient handprints. Most scholars had assumed these ancient artists were predominantly men, so the finding ...

Cave paintings can tell us a lot about the people who painted them. For starters, they indicate that a particular culture made time for art. They also tell us that these people valued art as well as ...

WASHINGTON – New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been by modern man. Some scientists say ...

WASHINGTON — New tests show that crude Spanish cave paintings of a red sphere and handprints are the oldest in the world, so ancient they may not have been by modern man. Some scientists say ...

Janine Burke explains the findings, which analyze ancient handprint art, and explores this intriguing possibility in art history. CC BY The Conversation, Hands on the wall: were the first artists ...

At least 14,000 years ago, artists took to Altamira cave in Spain with charcoal and red pigments, painting bison, deer and their own handprints on the rock walls and ceiling. This prehistoric art ...