The Altamira cave paintings were discovered by a little girl named Maria Sanz de Sautuola in 1879 in northern Spain. The paintings consisted of large bison painted in detail and color, which made the ...

An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in ...

In a first, scientists recovered human DNA from ancient cave paintings, a breakthrough that could open new ways to ...

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by Indonesian ...

Whether Neanderthals thought symbolically and had an artistic sensibility has been a question that has vexed experts in human evolution. But evidence is mounting that our Stone Age cousins were our ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. When writing headlines for stories about human evolution, ...