A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, ...

(Kristina Thomsen/Creative Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — The oldest known Neanderthal engravings in the world have been found on the walls of a cave in Central France, researchers said on ...

Or that competition with Neanderthals, present in Europe until ... the main function of cave paintings was to communicate with the spirit world. Smith is likewise convinced that in Africa ...

Cave markings thought to have been carved by Neanderthals suggests they were expressing abstract thought. Single-cell analysis revealed the molecular triggers that drive stem cells to become cancerous ...

But most of the cave paintings in southern France and Spain were created after the Neanderthals disappeared. Why there? Why then? One clue is the caves themselves—deeper and more extensive than ...

Created using red pigment, the Spanish cave paintings included hand stencils and geometric shapes. 'Some previous claims for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour have dating uncertainties or lie within ...

Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the famous prehistoric cave paintings of Altamira—is ...

The remains of the first known Neanderthal family have been discovered in a Siberian cave. On Wednesday, scientists revealed that they found the fossilized bone fragments of a closely related ...

These findings are likely linked to Neanderthal habitation. Hassanpour added that the discovery of painted buff ware and red ware from the Chalcolithic period (over 5,500 years ago) indicates the cave ...