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

In the last five years, 3 of the 4 oldest cave artworks ever found on Earth were identified on the same small island off ...

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

The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art ...

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

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

The Painted Rocks on a bluff along the Concho River outside of the village of Paint Rock is one of the most unique concentrations of more than 1,500 native pictographs in North America. Among the most ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

The world’s oldest rock art, found in an Indonesian cave, offers new insight into the arrival of the first humans in ancient ...