A red, crosshatched design adorning a rock from a South African cave may take the prize as the ... it shows that Stone Age folk in southern Africa communicated something they considered important ...

Humans started wearing clothing as early as the Stone Age, new research suggests. Tool markings found on the fossilized bones of a 300,000-year-old prehistoric cave bear seem to indicate that ...

Over the course of three research seasons in the small Hučivá diera cave in the Belianske Tatry mountain range, northern Slovakia, archaeologists managed to explore most of the buried hearth from the ...

Image caption, This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse ...

during which archaeologists dug two trenches inside the cave. Several big and small stone tools dating back to the Mesolithic period - also called the middle stone age - have been found.

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 ...

A beauty made from a necessity. It is entirely explicable. Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and ...

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 ...

Ben Bacon, a furniture restorer by day, spent his nights analyzing photographs of cave paintings ... have been important information for the Stone Age hunters because it meant that large herds ...