Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, suggesting that Neanderthals, not modern humans, were the world's first artists. Phys.org ...

Ancient humans painted scenes in Indonesian caves more than 45,000 years ago, but their art is disappearing rapidly. Researchers are trying to discover what’s causing the damage and how to stop ...

Incredibly rare pieces of tiny rock art found in an Australian cave may have been made by CHILDREN using beeswax stencils, scientists claim. The Aboriginal people of Australia have created art ...

Rock (Art) of Ages: Indonesian Cave Paintings Are 40,000 Years Old Cave paintings of animals and hand stencils in Sulawesi, Indonesia, seem to be as old as similar cave art in Europe ...

The world's oldest-known rock art — simple red ochre ladders, dots and hand stencils — was created by Neanderthals, a new study suggests. Skip to main content ABC News ...

The roughly 8,000-year-old "hands" painted on a rock wall in the Sahara Desert aren't human at all, as researchers originally thought, but are actually stencils of the "hands" or forefeet, of the ...

IN A limestone cave sits the world’s oldest hand stencil. Next to it is a drawing of a pig-deer. Together, they are turning our understanding of the birth of art on its head. Around 40,000 years ...