Until Aubert went to Sulawesi, the oldest dated art was firmly in Europe. The spectacular lions and rhinos of Chauvet Cave, in southeastern France, are commonly thought to be around 30,000 to ...

Paleolithic paintings in El Castillo cave in Northern Spain date back at least 40,800 years -- making them Europe's oldest known cave art, according to new research.

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know ...

In the 1850s, miners in a Spanish cave came across a burial site full of grave goods like ceramics, an ax head, ornamental ...

This revelation was surprising because researchers have previously found most ancient cave art in Europe. Sites like France’s 30,000-year old Chauvet Cave are famous for their overlapping horses, ...

revealing that some are over 20,000 years older than the oldest previously confirmed cave paintings in Europe. This suggests that the creators may not have been Homo sapiens at all. In Northern ...

The discovery drives home the point that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art, as had long been assumed. The researchers used a new scientific approach to determine the minimum age of the ...

The oldest rock art in the cave consists of abstract signs such ... a key locality for investigating the deep history of European culture. The authors add: "Our research presents a well-stratified ...

A hand painted in an Indonesian cave dates to at least 39,900 years ago, making it among the oldest such images in the world, archaeologists reported Wednesday in a study that rewrites the history ...

Previously, the first narrative art was thought to have emerged in Europe. The date given for the Indonesian cave art is “quite provocative” because it is so much older than what has been ...

“This discovery of very old cave art in Indonesia drives home the point that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art, as had long been assumed.” Archaeologists uncovered a wealth of ...