The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Prehistoric art, as revealed by a 70,000-year-old handprint, is now seen as a fundamental human survival strategy rather than ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

As we move into the new year, we need more ruptures in mainstream thinking. It’s the cracks that let the light in.

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

A hand stencil on the wall of a cave in Indonesia has become the oldest known rock art in the world, exceeding the ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave ...

Step into the sprawling, cavernous expanse of a Willingdon Island warehouse this week, and you will find yourself transported far from the industrial docks of K ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the sphinx.