The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology revive a lost pottery skill, mastering precise clay shaping without modern equipment.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Niede Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ...

Children participated in cave paintings because they were perceived as mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds ...

Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Discovered in 2000 by an amateur cave explorer, the Grotte de Cussac in the Dordogne department holds ancient human remains, traces of long ...

World Rarely seen cave art holds prehistoric secrets in France Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses.

Officials at Dunbar Cave State Park reported that the oldest cave art in the U.S. was “completely submerged,” which “has never happened before.” ...

For nearly a century, archaeologists have been perplexed by an enduring enigma: the conspicuous absence of cave paintings in the Levant, including modern-day Israel. This puzzle persists despite ...

The Dunbar Cave State Park in Tennessee is one of the few places in the U.S. where visitors can view ancient art. The caves have been part of the state park system for 51 years, but the discovery of ...

Archaeologists keep finding older and older cave art. Here’s what it could tell us about how humans evolved over time.

What does prehistoric art tell us? Where does art begin? When in prehistoric human life did the drive start that spun poems, painting, and symphonies? It’s not difficult to reason from what we ...