13 of the world's oldest artworks, some crafted by extinct human relatives
Archaeological evidence suggests that symbolism in art, once seen as something that only modern humans were capable of, was produced by earlier …
View ArticleIn photos: The world's oldest cave art
Archaeologists may have discovered Earth's oldest known cave art. Dating back to around 40,000 years ago, paintings in Indonesian caves of human …
View Article20,000-year-old cave painting 'dots' are the earliest written language, study...
Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 …
View ArticleWarty pig is oldest animal cave art on record
The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves. The oldest-known animal drawing in the world is a 45,500-year-old depiction of a hairy, warty pig on a …
View ArticleDid art exist before modern humans? New discoveries raise big questions.
Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive …
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