Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence ...

The painting predates 66,000 year-old rock art attributed to Neanderthals in Spain, which was previously believed to be the ...

Stencilled hands with claws recently discovered in Indonesia predate the previously oldest-known rock art by over 1,000 years ...

The handprints dotting the walls of an Indonesian cave had tapered fingertips, and the team found the prints were nearly ...

Researchers discovered 68,000-year-old cave art in Indonesia, the oldest-known evidence of Homo sapiens in the area. The ...

This discovery challenges the notion that abstract and symbolic thinking began only 40,000 years ago.

Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to ...

The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

It really just shows how long people have been making rock art in that part of the world,” an archaeology professor said of ...

An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.

A faint hand stencil hidden on a cave wall in Indonesia has been dated to at least 67,800 years old—potentially making it the oldest known cave art yet studied. The discovery comes from a limestone ...