The very modern human traits of complex and abstract thinking may have evolved in Africa 77,000 years ago--almost twice as early as previously believed--according to a team of anthropologists who ...

More than a hundred thousand years ago in what is now eastern China, an ancient human relative decided to carve a bit of bone. Surrounded by the fragmented skeletons of butchered animals, the ancient ...

Six-hundred-year-old stone carvings have been revealed on a beach on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The petroglyphs were found just outside Waianae and represent people and abstract symbols carved into ...

A discovery in Turkey has suggested that ancient humans had a stronger concept of individual human identity and artistic realism much earlier than previously thought. Archaeologists working at ...

A single wooden sculpture dominates the Nightingale-Brown House’s gallery space. Gail Whitsitt-Lynch’s giant, abstract carving called “BitterSweet” has been on display since May, and leaves the ...

And sculptor Chango Chitoko has managed to artfully bring out the hornbill’s motherly characteristics in her works predominantly made out of springstone, dolomite and green opal which has wowed local ...

From medieval stone-carved Síle na Gigs depicting naked women to decorated Celtic High Crosses, Galway's Iron Age Turoe Stone and the abstract carvings of circles, spirals and lozenges at the ...

The discovery of "art" carved by Neanderthals – close, extinct relatives of our own species Homo sapiens – in a cave on Gibraltar is being hailed as proof that these long-derided early human were just ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered hundreds of mysterious giant alien-looking figures among 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines carved into Peru’s desert. The ancient drawings show abstract shapes that look like ...