Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also ... these predate the arrival of modern humans to Europe by at least 20,000 years and thus must have been made by Neanderthals rather ...

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

more than 5,000 years older than the previous oldest cave art. The discovery pushes back the time that modern humans first showed the capacity for creative thought. Prof Maxime Aubert from ...

The results gave a minimum age of 65,000 years ago for the cave art. Modern humans only arrived in Europe roughly 45,000 years ago. This suggests that the Palaeolithic artwork must have been made ...