The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were discovered by a climber in Rio de Janeiro. The paintings, which could be up to 3,000 ...

Rock art, Itatiaia National Park, Brazil. ITATIAIA NATIONAL PARK, BRAZIL––Agência Brasil reports that ancient paintings were recently located in a cave in Itatiaia National P ...

Ancient cave paintings potentially dating back 2,000 to 3,000 years have been discovered in Brazil's Itatiaia National Park.

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

Because of this, most archeologists long believed Mediterranean islands like Malta were some of the last wildernesses to ...

Study shows prehistoric children may have participated in cave art because they were considered mediators between the ...

Elsewhere, at France’s Rouffignac Cave, evidence points to a child under the age of five drawing at least ... come up with an unusual hypothesis: the kids were mini-priests or spiritual mediators.

The researchers explain: “Next to many cave paintings, there is clear evidence of the presence of children as young as two years old. So far, most hypotheses have focused on the educational ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone human figurine in Damjili Cave ... that symbolic art and ritual behavior ...

Some of the finds date back to the early Paleolithic era, otherwise known as the Old Stone Age. One of the discoveries ... Spain's oldest-known cave art until this find is from around 100,000 ...

Archaeologists from the series Time Team took part in the excavations with Forestry England Archaeologists have discovered that what was thought to be a single standing stone in a forest is part ...