Not until the late 19th century did humans learn of the extraordinary art produced by their Ice Age ... and at others painted directly onto the cave wall. They were made at a time when Western ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

had revisited the cave over thousands of years, leaving their stories on the wall between 27,000 and 44,000 years ago. The art is preserved behind a layer of calcium carbonate which formed over ...

Vandals defaced carvings on the walls at Koonalda Cave in South Australia ... Guardian that because of the nature of the wall's surface, the art could not be saved. "The vandals caused a huge ...

by stubbing it against the cave's wall. This left a residue that the researchers were able to date with radiocarbon to 133–433 AD. This was also in accord with the age of pottery fragments ...