A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, children participated in cave paintings because they were seen as mediators ...

The team made the daily climb with all their excavation and photography equipment, weighing up to 50 pounds per person.

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

Why would prehistoric humans carry their youngest children deep into the winding, pitch-black recesses of ancient caves?

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

Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

Denisovans are an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

Within that worldview, children weren’t just included—they were essential. Dr. Dani Naor Assaf explains, “Cave art created by ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...