“It’s a symbol of strength,” he says ... and just 900 years shy of the world’s oldest-known cave painting of any kind, a simple red disk at El Castillo. The youngest stencil was ...

The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears, cattle, mammoths, and reindeer -- are interspersed with geometric symbols ... cave painting dates from about 30,000 ...

Painting from three cave sites, a red linear motif in Cave ... it’s the fact that they were engaging in symbolism. And that’s ...

The Damjili find is the first known example of portable, three-dimensional figurative art from this ... people who used the cave—not just as shelter, but as a sacred or symbolic space. This find ...

The skeleton, along with numerous cave paintings, was found at the Tham Din (Earthen Cave) archaeological site in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. When excavations began in 2022, archaeologists ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Children's involvement in prehistoric cave art may have extended beyond education, serving a unique cultural role. Evidence suggests children as young as two ...

Radiocarbon dating of the material suggested they lived there from about 29,000 to 11,000 years ago, although it is unclear precisely when the cave paintings were made.