In 1958, an amateur archaeologist named John Cowles excavated the Cougar Mountain Cave in Oregon and retained many of the ...

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...

More than 3,000 artworks from national museums were stowed in chateaus in the Lot—about 350 miles south of Paris ...

Tormod Fjeld, who discovered the art, has found 70 such scenes across the country. The art depicts ships and human prints.

A cave painting in Indonesia has been dated to nearly 44,000 years ago. It shows human-animal figures hunting wild pigs and buffalo in a coordinated scene. This makes it the oldest known narrative ...

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change ...

We generally associate the origins of mathematical thinking with the emergence of writing, about five to six thousand years ago. However, a new study challenges this assumption looking at floral ...

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

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