One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

Writing in the journal Antiquity, Professor Jan Simek of the University of Tennessee and colleagues have published images of giant glyphs carved into the mud surface of the low ceiling of a cave ...

Turning serving trays decorated by anonymous, long-lost artisans into blue chip art, Cave underlines the arbitrary way we assign value to artifacts; including his own face reminds us that those ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) may have found the answer to the question that has been puzzling archeologists for decades: Why is there no prehistoric cave art in the Levant, and ...