Archaeologists keep finding older and older cave art. Here’s what it could tell us about how humans evolved over time.

which were sketched in the country’s Sierra Sur de Jaén mountain range thousands of years ago, local law enforcement said. A tourist tossed water on centuries-old cave paintings to get better ...

An 18,000 year-old charcoal drawing of a stag in Spain. Credit: Dr. Izzy Wisher. Courtesy of the Gobierno de Cantabria. In July, researchers discovered the oldest known cave art. It was found in a ...

The cave art was previously thought to have been made within the last few thousand years. The Cueva Huenul 1 site contains almost 900 paintings of human figures, animals, and abstract designs. One ...

In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world. Figurative ...

One key discovery, published in July, is a 50,000-year-old cave painting of a pig found on Sulawesi, along the northern route. Likewise, a study published in May found that there was no evidence ...

El Castillo contains one of the oldest known cave paintings, dated as more than 40,000 years old. Located in Puente Viesgo, it is situated in a limestone hill, which hides an intricate labyrinth ...

Yet Cave’s complex relationship with the Christian faith of his childhood was transformed by the death of his teenage son, Arthur, in 2015 (he lost a second son, Jethro, aged 31 in 2022). The music ...

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Recent Nick Cave projects have, understandably, made for intense company. Following the death of his 15-year-old son Arthur, an unimaginable sadness became a defining aspect of his life and art ...