Researchers Discover Paleolithic Cave Art Dated 66,000 Years Ago, Reveal Neanderthals to Be the ‘First Artists' Painting from ...

“We were able to date four black peniform patterns that were drawn in charcoal. These proved to be the earliest direct dating of cave paintings in South America,” said Dr. Guadalupe Romero ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes applied to ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ... in red, yellow, white, black and orange colors. “Many of the figures are superimposed, suggesting that they were ...

Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, and the oldest ...