Researchers in Spain used Apple iPhone’s built-in LiDAR sensor to create a 3D map of a cave with hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings. Digital model of La Pileta cave Cueva de la Pileta is a cave in ...

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...

A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in ...

Note to editors: Selected high-resolution images for publication are available only through the museum’s Dropbox account. Email [email protected] to request the link. The Smithsonian American Art ...

Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh Before we can answer this question, we need to think about another one: “what is art?” Art is something people make to ...