Caves
Museums & Heritagefeature
Protecting North America’s oldest cave art after an historic flood raised new alarms
Dunbar Cave, home of numerous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back at least 800 years, was submerged by a flood in February—the art was fortunately undamaged, but how can we save it from inevitable future storms?
Archaeologynews
Cave paintings in Patagonia discovered to be oldest rock art in South America
Radiocarbon dating by archaeologists has revealed that wall motifs in a cave in southern Argentina are over 8,000 years old
Archaeologynews
Carving of man holding his penis and surrounded by leopards is oldest known depiction of a narrative scene, archaeologists say
Neolithic bench discovered in Turkey shows a discernible narrative progression, and dates to around 11,000 BC
Prehistoric artnews
Researchers suggest that trippy hallucinations influenced prehistoric cave art
Reduced oxygen resulting from the use of torches in narrow enclosed spaces likely triggered hypoxia, resulting in out-of-body experiences, scholars report



