Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen thousand years ago, our Ice Age ancestors practiced both cave art and cannibalism. Human remains found deep in a Polish ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient cave drawings in Indonesia are as old as famous prehistoric art in Europe, according to a new study that shows our ancestors were drawing all over the world 40,000 years ago.

Archaeologists found three new drawings from tens of thousands of years ago in a Spanish cave. They used a visual technique called stereoscopic photography to see the cave art like never before. The ...

Jean-Claude explains bear markings to PhD student Trine Friesleben. (photo by and courtey Kristina Jørkov Thomsen) Homo sapiens have long looked down on Neanderthals as the less sophisticated side of ...

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Patterns of lines and dots associated with specific animal species in cave art may point to an early writing system. The four dots painted across the back of this aurochs (wild ox) in the Lascaux cave ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the ...