The first prehistoric cave excavation in Israel took place in 1925, but frustratingly, not a single cave painting has been found since,” Barkai said. Reconstruction of elephant hunting using spears.

the Cro-Magnon people of Western Europe. These early artists decorated walls of caves with delicate, dramatic animal paintings. The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison ...

experts said that an engraving found at a separate cave in Gibraltar provided compelling evidence for Neanderthal art. The geometric pattern identified in Gibraltar, on the southern tip of Europe ...

He confirmed the cave paintings (known as parietal art ... placing it in the Magdalenian culture of the Upper Paleolithic in Western Europe. Sooty remnants in the bowl of the lamp were analyzed ...

The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest known are more than 44,000 years old (art of the Upper Paleolithic), found in both the Franco-Cantabrian region in western Europe, and in ...

According to a new study, prehistoric humans in the region comprising modern-day Palestine and Israel did not see the ritualistic purpose of painting on cave walls, unlike their European counterparts ...

Here’s how it works. Roughly 7,000-year-old cords found in a stunning Spanish cave are Europe's oldest bowstrings made of sinew, new research finds. The bowstrings — along with fragments of ...