Chukotka: 31 new petroglyphs discovered on the Arctic cliffs of the Pegtymel
Roped up like mountaineers, Russian archaeologists found thirty-one unknown engraved surfaces along the Pegtymel in August 2026, Asia's onl…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
Roped up like mountaineers, Russian archaeologists found thirty-one unknown engraved surfaces along the Pegtymel in August 2026, Asia's onl…
Read →Triangles, dots, spirals: the 32 recurring abstract signs of Palaeolithic rock art reveal a symbolic system shared by humanity for over 40,…
Read →Between 500 BCE and 200 CE, the Nok culture produced terracotta sculptures in Nigeria with pierced triangular eyes that constitute the olde…
Read →Some 17,000 years ago, Magdalenian artists painted bison, reindeer, and mammoths in polychrome in a Dordogne fissure. The last cave of its …
Read →Some 25,000 years ago, a Gravettian hand carved the first recognizable human face in mammoth ivory. Just 3.65 cm that change everything.
Read →Deep in an Ariège cave, two bison sculpted in clay 14,000 years ago stand as some of the finest sculptures of the Paleolithic era.
Read →In Gargas cave (Hautes-Pyrenees, France), 231 hand prints 27,000 years old line the walls. Most have missing fingers. Ritual mutilation, ge…
Read →Négative hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Spain) have been dated to over 66,000 years ago - long before Homo sapiens arrived in Europe. T…
Read →University of Tubingen archaeologists have presented two 2cm bird figurines carved in mammoth ivory, dated to thé Aurignacian (40,000 years…
Read →University of Tubingen archaeologists have presented two 2cm bird figurines carved in mammoth ivory, dated to thé Aurignacian (40,000 years…
Read →Paintings dated to at least 17,100 years ago in Bacon Hole Cave on thé Gower Peninsula, Wales, are confirmed as thé oldest known cave art i…
Read →In 2023, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claimed that Homo naledi, a hominin species with a very small brain, had buried its dead and produc…
Read →In the Wadi Khamila in the southern Sinai, a team from the University of Bonn has discovered the oldest known representation of an act of E…
Read →A systematic spatial analysis of decorated sites in the Basque Country and Cantabria shows that Palaeolithic artists deliberately organized…
Read →In Liang Metanduno cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a negative hand stencil with claw-like fingers has been dated to at least 67,800 …
Read →A CNRS team has succeeded in directly radiocarbon-dating Palaeolithic paintings in Font-de-Gaume cave, Dordogne. A bison has been placed at…
Read →In Burgundy, the Grande Grotte of Arcy holds France's oldest still-visible paintings, 28,000 years old. Neanderthals then Cro-Magnons succe…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
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