A small stone painted with regular red and brown spots has been found in southern Germany’s Hohle Fels Cave. Scientists think that the dots were made with the end of a hazel tree branch some 15,000 years ago. “These spots are anything but accidental,”  said Nicholas Conard of Tübingen University. There’s more information on what is […]

While examining modern and ancient DNA from horses as part of an effort to figure out when the animals were domesticated, a team of genetic scientists realized that the Paleolithic representations of horses at France’s Pech-Merle Cave are realistic representations of what people saw in the wild. “What we found is that there were really […]