Prehistoric art

Prehistoric animal paintings on the wall of the Pont-de-Gome cave in France

Hidden charcoal allows famous cave paintings in France to be dated for the first time

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Non-invasive tests have revealed charcoal in black paintings in the Pont-de-Gome cave in France. The charcoal makes it possible to directly date some of the figures for the first time and build a basis for a more precise timeline of cave art in the region.
Arpachiyah Excavations, Iraq – Historical Documentation from the British Museum and UCL Collections. Credit: Yosef Garfinkel.

Flower paintings on 8,000-year-old pottery from Mesopotamia reveal mathematical patterns

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Analysis of samples from the Khalafite culture in northern Mesopotamia found symmetrical divisions of the numbers 4, 8, 16, 32 and even 64 – a hint at quantitative thinking before the emergence of written numbers
A 12-year-old figurine of a woman and a goose discovered in Ein Gev. Image credit: Laurent Davin

A 12-year-old figurine of a woman and a goose from Nahal Ein Gev: the world's oldest depiction of the bond between a human and an animal

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Principal - one of the panels with ancient rock paintings in Colombia. Photo: University of Exeter

12,500 Years: Ancient Art in the Amazon Reveals Secrets of Prehistoric Ecology

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