News tagged with prehistoric cave

Ancient DNA provides new insights into cave paintings of horses

An international team of researchers has used ancient DNA to shed new light on the realism of horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Homo sapiens arrived in Europe earlier than previously believed

Members of our species (Homo sapiens) arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought. At this conclusion a team of researchers, led by the Department of Anthropology, University of Vie ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Controversy over reopening the 'Sistine Chapel' of Stone Age art

Plans to reopen Spain's Altamira caves are stirring controversy over the possibility that tourists' visits will further damage the 20,000-year old wall paintings that changed views about the intellectual ability of prehistoric ...

Chemistry / Other

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Cut marks on bone suggest burial rituals of Early Britons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research on human remains from Kent’s Cavern in Devon has led scientists to believe that humans from the Mesolithic period (after the Ice Age) may have engaged in complex ritualistic burial ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mould problem "stable" at Lascaux cave

The problem of black fungus threatening world-famous prehistoric paintings at the Lascaux Cave in southwestern France is "stable," a scientist said on Thursday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0