Between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago, unnamed artists covered the extensive Lascaux cave system in France’s Dordogne region with hundreds of paintings of animals and abstract shapes. The ...

These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

Image caption, This work of art was found in a cave at Cresswell Crags, Derbyshire. It was made around 12,000 years ago. The Stone Age artist used a sharp stone to scratch the outline of a horse ...

Long before early modern humans arrived in Europe, Neanderthals were painting in caves, leaving behind animal shapes and hand-prints. They may also have been decorating shells before Homo sapiens did.