He told Reuters that while the team would be "hesitant to call it art", it almost definitely had "some meaning to the maker". There have been numerous other artefacts found in Blombos Cave ...

Artifacts help us take a glimpse into the past. What many used in their day-to-day lives helps historians and researchers ...

Meanwhile, Blombos itself kept yielding treasures ... with others—is obvious only after the fact. Even more than the cave art, these first concrete expressions of consciousness represent ...

The first era of Technological Reproducibility can be traced to evidence of the protagonism of women in rock art and ...

The rock was found about 30km east of the Blombos Cave ... the most famous of which is France's Chauvet Cave. The concept of ...

the unexpected discovery of personal ornaments and art older than 70,000 years ago — shell beads and engraved ochre — at Blombos Cave on the southern Cape coast of South Africa, initiated a ...

One hypothesis is that the art is reflects "sympathetic magic," a ritual aimed at bringing good luck to the hunters. The true significance of these magnificent cave paintings at Lascaux and ...

Art was previously thought to be a behaviour unique to our species (Homo sapiens) and far beyond our evolutionary cousins. The cave paintings include stencilled impressions of Neanderthal hands ...

The immersive, 18m-wide installation is a ‘subjective and personal’ mapping of 73 pivotal moments in mankind’s history, from the first known human drawing in South Africa’s Blombos Cave (73,000 ...

By Farah Nayeri The fair at the Park Avenue Armory, with paintings, watercolors and drawings, includes crowd pleasers as well as exciting debuts from midcentury artists flying beneath the radar.

Casson Mann designed the interior of this new cave art museum in France. London design studio Casson Mann created an entire visitor experience for the new attraction in France, using interactive ...

Prehistoric close prehistoricA period of time before history was written. cave art is one of the earliest forms of drawing. Many examples of cave art include drawings of animals and humans.