Smith is likewise convinced that in Africa, spiritual beliefs drove the very first art. He cites Rhino Cave in Botswana, where archaeologists have found that 65,000 to 70,000 years ago people ...

The cave is tucked away from the rest of the area at a higher elevation. "It's possible that people, these early humans, were only going up into these high-level caves to make this art," study co ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ancestors, the Cro-Magnon people of Western ... representational cave painting dates from ...

Ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Rio de ... its connection to other regions, and the people who created the artwork. Researchers from the National Museum of the Federal University ...

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 ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National Park. Located at an altitude of 2,350 meters in the Mantiqueira Mountains on the border of Rio de Janeiro and ...

A cave painting on an Indonesian island is believed to be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, researchers said on Thursday. Scientists from Australia’s Griffith University ...