What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated those early pictures really were. Far from crude doodles, these works show ...

An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the history of Homo sapiens." The inscriptions that Bacon, 67, decoded date back tens of thousands of years.

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...

“Messages from the Stone Age”, about hand stencils found in caves and early human culture, brings to mind 16,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France. These are said to show the constellation ...

If I say Stone Age cave paintings, what comes to mind - stick figures, humans hunting woolly mammoths? Well, yes. But more than 20,000 years ago, Ice Age hunter-gatherers also started including ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...