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 ...

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 ...

"To our knowledge, this is the first time we can put in evidence a relationship between music and cave art in European pre-history." Read more at Front Page Detectives. Get FRONT PAGE DETECTIVES ...

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 ...

The results gave a minimum age of 65,000 years ago for the cave art. Modern humans only arrived in Europe roughly 45,000 years ago. This suggests that the Palaeolithic artwork must have been made ...

The World Heritage site of Chauvet Cave in southern France is famous—and a source of both wonder and controversy—for having the world’s oldest cave paintings ... to live in Europe, brought ...

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 ...