paintings of jaguar, tapir and red deer (shown here, c. 10,000 B.C.) interact with human figures in scenes that include dancing and hunting. Niède Guidon / Bradshaw Foundation Coliboaia Cave ...

is the world's oldest known artwork and evidence of storytelling The painting, found in the Leang Karampuang cave on Sulawesi, depicts what appears to be three human-bird hybrids hunting a wild ...

especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for ...

The discovery of the “Venus of Hohle Fels”—named by Conard for the cave ... “hunting magic”—representations of sought-after game animals and, therefore, survival tools, not works of art.

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

Its walls exhibit three distinctive styles of cave art linked to a hunter-gatherer ... Detailed murals predate hunting scenes with native guanacos and ostriches predate the handprints ...