A 12,000-year-old figurine from Israel reveals the earliest human-animal interaction in art, offering rare insight into ...

Learn how archaeologists discovered a woman-and-goose carving that predates the Neolithic and offers new clues to ancient ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known ...

Scientists have just unearthed theworld’s oldest known cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At 51,200 years old, ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

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The discovery clashes with the traditional image of humans evolving on the savannas of East Africa. By Carl Zimmer For generations, scientists looked to the East African savanna as the birthplace of ...