Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers ... have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura. While tourists are guided through the caves ...

There is mounting evidence indicating that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary origins and not just a ...

Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice ... in what's called the Upper Paleolithic era. Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Evolution of Paleolithic Art ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 218 No. 2 (February 1968), p. 58 doi:10.1038 ...

Stone Age Rock Art in Finland Most of the rock art in Finland dating to the Stone Age, that Rainio and her colleagues examined, was painted between 3,000 years and 7,000 years ago. The art that ...

Earlier work in the rock shelter has shown that the sandstone had been worked in the Late Paleolithic period to create images of horses and a female form that included an outflow of water.