Sixty-eight thousand years ago, in the humid dark of a limestone cave on the Indonesian island of Muna, a human being pressed their hand against the cold wall. They took a mouthful of red pigment and ...

Conceptual artists are using performance to create unsettling and thought-provoking experiences, often involving the viewer as a collaborator in the art piece ...

Scientists have identified what they believe to be the oldest known rock art in the world inside a cave in Indonesia. ADAM BRUMM: So this is a human hand mark created by blowing paint around a human ...

Discovered in an Indonesian cave, hand stencils with fingertips that taper to points are now though to be the oldest rock art in the world. While it is unclear whether they were made by Homo sapiens ...

Indonesia’s vast archipelago is covered with the fingerprints of human history: ancient cave paintings. But on an island just off Sulawesi, archaeologists have now identified the world’s oldest known ...

SULAWESI, Indonesia (WKRC) - Researchers discovered red hand prints in a cave that they believe could be the oldest cave painting ever discovered - dating back almost 70,000 years. The stenciled hands ...

This 'negative hand,' which researchers have dated to at least 67,800 years ago, is now the oldest known example of cave painting. The discovery fills a crucial gap in tracing the path of our species' ...

When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new ...

The painting was found inside the Liang Metanduno limestone cave in Indonesia Cover Images via AP Images Researchers have discovered an outline of a hand inside a cave in Indonesia, which could be the ...

International scientists have discovered a stencil of a hand in Indonesia that dates back nearly 68,000 years, making it the oldest known cave artwork ever discovered, per a study published Wednesday ...

The world’s oldest known example of cave art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered by researchers studying handprints in Indonesia. The find, along with others recently made in the ...

NEW YORK — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by ...