What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we seem to ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

In 1940 in Dordogne, France, four boys stumbled upon a long forgotten cave, a jewel of prehistoric art and a major archeological revelation. The cave was named Lascaux. Now a World Heritage site, ...

New archaeological research suggests that some Stone Age Europeans used vibrant blue pigments to decorate themselves or their possessions - and evidence from other sources raises the possibility that ...

Travel back in time at the Field Museum. The newest exhibit includes cave paintings from caves in Lascaux, France. "The paintings you see here in Lascaux Cave are exact, and I mean exact. They are 3-D ...

Prehistoric paintings found deep inside a perilously inaccessible cave in the French Pyrenees reveal how ancient hunter-gatherers risked their necks to conduct ritual activities in the bowels of the ...

The cave paintings are located in the Aravalli mountain range in northwestern India. Tushar Dayal via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Archaeologists say cave paintings found in northwestern India’s Aravalli ...

Stone Age people living in Europe 20,000 years ago may have devised a simple form of writing to record the habits of the animals they hunted, according to a study of mysterious symbols on artefacts ...

Were they goddesses—or toys? The true purpose of ancient figurines known as the “Stone Age Venuses” has stumped scholars for more than a century. Pint-size iconMore than 200 Paleolithic female ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...