Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ... in style to some of the paintings at these other sites, are for the most part different. Indeed, the importance ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Using a different dating technique ... The deposits are often found on and around ancient cave paintings. Though widely used in archaeology, the method tends to underestimate the true age of ...

According to the scientists, the earliest cave paintings in Spain (from three different sites) date back more than 64,000 years. These paintings are red and black in color and depict geometric ...

The researchers used a new scientific approach to determine the minimum age of the newly disclosed painting inside the Leang Karampuang cave in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi province ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...