The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

In an Indonesian cave system known for its prehistoric art, the oldest cave art yet found was hiding in plain sight. In a ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

At Galleri Urbane, Drea Cofield and Erika Jaeggli explore how humans have depicted themselves and their world, from ancient ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

On a September day in 1940 while much of Europe was engulfed in war, four teenagers were walking through a forest in southern France when their dog fell down a hole. As they called for it they heard ...

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to ...

A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

The discovery of more than 100 prehistoric structures in the Cova Dones cave in Spain makes it one of the most significant prehistoric underground sites in the world. Archaeologists found stalagmites ...