Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Using a different dating technique ... The deposits are often found on and around ancient cave paintings. Though widely used in archaeology, the method tends to underestimate the true age of ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made ... “Many of the figures are superimposed, suggesting that they were made at different times over generations, between 5,000 ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings. When the cave was discovered in ...

It was speculated that the art could be the oldest known representation ... But there were other cuts and markings in the cave that had different meanings, found by scientists Médard Thiry ...

Ice-age children are behind some unusual drawings in the Las Monedas Cave in Spain, a new study claims. Here & Now ‘s Peter O ...

Looters stole a cave painting and damaged others with an electric saw at La Cueva Pinta, photos show and officials said. Photo from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

The researchers used a new scientific approach to determine the minimum age of the newly disclosed painting inside the Leang Karampuang cave in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi province ...