Chauvet’s paintings, formerly known as the oldest cave art, are 37,000 years old. In 2012, El Castillo, Spain , took top prize for oldest cave art in the world, with one painting dated to 40,800 ...

The cave paintings show simple but elegant motifs: a red linear pattern in La Pasiega, red-painted stalagmites and stalagtites in Andales, and, perhaps most impressively, ...

As the cave paintings they found got older, however, they noticed a change in the acoustics. “The oldest paintings, from up to 40,000 years ago—some as simple as dots or handprints—tend to ...

S1: Rock paintings by ancient indigenous people can be seen all over the southwest in the rugged canyons of Baja , California. There are cave paintings that are much older than we thought.

As cave art goes, it doesn’t look like much: a single red dot, hidden among a scatter of handprints and drawings of animals on the wall of El Castillo cave in northern Spain.. But this red dot ...

Archaeologists have found new cave paintings in Central Europe that suggest photography may be many thousands of years older than previously realised. It is well known that the whole concept of the ...

Cave art depicting a hunting scene has been found in Indonesia dated to 44,000 years old, making it the oldest rock art created by humans. Posted 6:00 p.m. Dec 11, 2019 — Updated 6:00 p.m. Dec ...

Figures found on the walls of a prehistoric cave in Indonesia are at least 35,400 years old or more, scientists say. That might mean the earliest art developed independently in different regions.

The cave art dates back to 64,000 years ago, the team at the University of Southampton in Britain, Germany’s Max Planck Institute, Spain’s University of Barcelona and others reported.