That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast Asia.

A newly dated Indonesian cave painting may be 1,100 years older than the world’s oldest known rock art, but not everyone is convinced by the evidence. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers in Indonesia ...

The outline of a hand made with red pigment on the wall of a cave in Indonesia at least 67,800 years ago may be the world’s oldest rock art, according to a new study. The faded hand stencil, along ...

The artists who spattered paint around their hands placed on cave walls 40,000 years ago can now be identified as either male or female. A new method borrows techniques from forensic science to find ...

You report that prehistoric hand stencils on cave walls with various digits missing could represent a sign language. I am a computer scientist, not a linguist, so I have a different take on the matter ...

The cave stencils look like tic-tac hand signals used by bookmakers to communicate betting odds at race courses to me. Perhaps they were valuable when out hunting. My granddaughter learned sign ...