According to a new study, prehistoric humans in the region comprising modern-day Palestine and Israel did not see the ...

Researchers say modern humans in the area did not see the ritualistic purpose of painting on cave walls, unlike their ...

New Tel Aviv University research suggests prehistoric humans in Israel didn't create cave paintings because large animals had ...

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 ...

For over a century, archaeologists have puzzled over the absence of cave art in the Levant in general and specifically in ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society, researchers suggest that prehistoric humans in the Levant did not create cave paintings because the primary subjects of ...

How does it compare to other prehistoric art? It may not be the oldest drawing ... the oldest animal drawing ever found. Last year, a cave painting in Borneo - thought to be the oldest of an ...

as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The ...

New research offers an explanation for why the practice prevalent in prehistoric Western Europe didn't occur in the Eastern Mediterranean.