The recent discovery of rock art in a cave in Indonesia might signify more than just our ancestors’ artistic ability. The art ...

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

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

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

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

The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, just yielded an ancient secret.

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

Learn more about the oldest rock art on record, a stencil of a human hand in Indonesia, which reveals important insights into ...

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

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