Cueva de Ardales in Málaga, Spain, is one of the richest and best-preserved Paleolithic
painted caves of southwestern Europe, containing over a thousand graphic representations …

The red disks from El Castillo Cave are among the earliest known cave paintings. Here, we
combine the morphometric and technological study of red disks from two areas located at …

Cueva de los Aviones (southeast Spain) is a site of the Neandertal-associated Middle
Paleolithic of Europe. It has yielded ochred and perforated marine shells, red and yellow …

The Neanderthals were first recog nized in 1856, when workmen un covered fossil human
bones in the Neander Valley near DUsseldorf in Ger many. At the time and for· some time …

The production of purposely made painted or engraved designs on cave walls—a means of
recording and transmitting symbolic codes in a durable manner—is recognized as a major …

For the past 40 y, the range of grooved and perforated animal teeth, mammoth-ivory rings,
and other unmistakably “decorative” or “ornamental” items discovered during the …

The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) research program on
prehistoric art conducts chronological studies of parietal representations with their …

Paleolithic cave art is an exceptional archive of early human symbolic behavior, but because
obtaining reliable dates has been difficult, its chronology is still poorly understood after more …

Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in
central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation …

To the Editor—A News & Views by Pearce and Bonneau 1 published in Nature Ecology &
Evolution comments on recently published uranium-series age constraints for Cueva de los …