Whether they take the form of carved images, sculptured figurines, or elegant abstractions, artifacts produced in prehistoric times are rarely seen as artistic expressions in their own right. Rather, ...

Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

Long before the Sumerians pressed reeds into clay, humans may have already taken their first steps toward writing. Forty thousand years ago, in the depths of Ice Age caves, people began leaving behind ...

Archeologists have identified the first Ice Age cave art ever discovered in England, a series of drawings dating back 12,000 years that are similar in style to the renowned cave drawings at Lascaux in ...

(AP) The art world loves hype. Works are touted as the biggest, the rarest, the most expensive. Even in an age of superlatives, the British Museum has something special the oldest known figurative art ...

The habitat and environment of the ice-age artist -- The art of the ice age / Johannes Mariger -- Discovery -- Sites -- Minor arts -- Mural paintings and engravings -- Reliefs and sculptures in the ...

A new study claims that European Ice Age hunter-gatherers relied on cave markings to remember details about the animals living in their environment, reported first by BBC. The marks discovered on ...

A horse's jaw bone, which features what is believed to be the oldest work of art in Wales, has returned to the town where it was found in a cave. The 13,000-year-old object is on show as the ...

While most ski areas in Colorado have colorful pasts as mining towns, logging sites, ranches, farms or homesteads, none can boast a prehistory like that of Snowmass. Tens of thousands of years ago, ...