Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old ...

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 trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Paleolithic (between 45,000 ...

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

A set of Stone Age artifacts have revealed evidence of advanced cognitive and symbolic behavior among prehistoric humans, a study reports. In the study, published in the journal Archaeological and ...

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, ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and perilous – creative feats of ancient humans, with researchers arguing that the ...