As a geologist who studies Stone Age cave art, Iñaki Intxaurbe is used to making subterranean treks in a headlamp and boots. But the first time he navigated a cave the way humans thousands of years ...

Stone Age Europeans may have huddled around campfires at night to watch simple animations created when firelight danced across artwork etched on flat rocks. The ancient paintings preserved on the ...

John C. Whittaker, an archaeologist, has long crafted such tools for experimental purposes, to see how they were used, how much effort it took to make them, and what the waste products of manufacture ...

IN 1879, an 8-year-old girl made a discovery that would rock our understanding of human history. On the walls of Altamira cave in northern Spain, she spotted stunning drawings of bison, painted in ...

Researchers working with Indigenous experts have uncovered fascinating information about a set of ancient rock engravings in southwestern Africa. The rock art was created by hunter-gatherers in what ...

Cave art that had been created in the Paleolithic age is thought to be the world's first attempt at producing a moving picture, not a muddled mess of limbs and heads. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube valley in southern Germany show what they were capable of. Does the cradle of modern European man ...