The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago or less, in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make ...

Archaeologists found footprints of children — and even babies — in another French cave, Fontanet, where they estimated ...

Since strong arguments can be advanced that many Upper Paleolithic societies in Southwest Europe were ... analysis of the physical viewing contexts and other key attributes of cave art images to ...

Explore the significance of child cave paintings in Paleolithic culture and their spiritual connections to ancient ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the Upper Paleolithic period in that they are completely geometric and do not depict humans, animals, or any other ...

Discovering any collection of Paleolithic ... Cova Dones, the cave in question, lies close to Spain’s eastern coast in Valencia, whereas most of the country’s ancient art—including the ...

New research suggests prehistoric children weren’t just along for the ride—they may have played powerful spiritual roles deep ...

Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University proposed a theory explaining the mysterious presence of small children in the depths of caves adorned with Paleolithic rock paintings. The study ...