The painting is the earliest known example of representational art The oldest example of figurative cave art has been discovered in the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi by Australian and Indonesian ...

A single cave appears to host three very different styles of ancient art, two of them unlike anything else known from the ...

However, more recently, in 2021, cave art of a pig found in an Indonesian island, and dated to over 45,500 years, has been reported. A 2018 study claimed an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples ...

Four years later, experts were able to date the painting back to 45,500 years, making it the oldest example of figurative cave art in the world. Figurative cave art is the term used for cave ...

In western Madagascar, prehistoric rock art drawings were found on the walls of the Andriamamelo Cave. The drawings are ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had ...

In 1963, the French government closed the Lascaux cave, restricting access to some of the world’s best examples of prehistoric art over concerns that carbon dioxide from visitors’ breathing ...

Markings found on paintings dating back at least 20,000 ... spent countless hours of his free time looking at examples of cave painting and analysing data to decipher what the markings signified.

New research offers an explanation for why the practice prevalent in prehistoric Western Europe didn't occur in the Eastern Mediterranean.