For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

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Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient human presence ...

Cave art represents one of humanity’s earliest forms of creative expression, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic period approximately 40,000 years ago. These ancient galleries, found across ...

A Ruiz-Redondo/V Barciela/X Martorell Cova Dones is a karstic cave, Ruiz-Redondo says, meaning its walls and standing water are rich in calcium carbonate, a natural paint preservative.

Slick mud covers the walking surface — between two and five feet deep — making paths treacherous. Dunbar Cave is home to the oldest cave art in the U.S., which dates back 800 years.

Unlike the Levant, Europe boasts a plethora of Aurignacian art, from miniature figurines carved out of stone and ivory, to cave paintings most notably at the Chauvet Cave in southeastern France. The ...

Below are 12 things you should know about the cave paintings at Lascaux. Four schoolboys stumbled onto the Lascaux cave system while chasing their dog. Dordogne is rife with decorated caves.

The Maltravieso cave in Cáceres, Spain, is famous for the 71 prehistoric hand paintings found on its walls. In 2018, researchers determined that the silhouettes were the first major evidence that ...

The world’s oldest figurative paintings, showing a pig and three humans, have been discovered on the ceiling of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, says a team of Australian ...