Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by two children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art, according to an international team of geologists and ...

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Fossilized handprints of children from nearly 200,000 years ago were discovered in India and believed to be some of the world's oldest art – providing evidence of the earliest human ancestors from the ...

Impressions of hands and feet that appear to have been made by two children about 200,000 years ago may be the earliest work of human art, according to an international team of geologists and ...

Tormod Fjeld, who discovered the art, has found 70 such scenes across the country. The art depicts ships and human prints.

On a humid island at the edge of Asia, a single human hand pressed against stone has reached across 67,800 years to meet our gaze. The newly dated stencil, sprayed in red pigment on a cave wall in ...

Researchers have identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. An international collaboration has identified what may be the ...