What looked like simple red stains turned out to be Britain’s oldest cave art from 17,100 years ago

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Researchers Confirm Oldest Cave Art in Britain a Century After It Was Dismissed as a Mineral Deposit

For nearly a century, skeptics dismissed a Paleolithic cave painting as merely rust-red iron oxides, the kind of natural ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Stone Age Markings May Be the Oldest Drawing Ever Discovered

Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Craig Foster The crisscrossed pattern, drawn on stone 73,000 years ago, wasn't used as shorthand for #artlovers, but the hashtag-like design ...
Newsweek

A 73,000-Year-Old ‘Hashtag’ Found in South African Cave Is the Earliest Known Drawing

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have reported the discovery of the oldest known drawing in ...
Science Daily

Did humans speak through cave art? Ancient drawings and language's origins

When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests a professor. When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT ...
Post and Courier

Paleolithic-era cave art found 1,000 feet underground in Spain

MADRID — Spanish archaeologists say they have discovered an exceptional set of Paleolithic-era cave drawings that could rank among the best in a country that already boasts some of the world’s most ...