Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Craig Foster The crisscrossed pattern, drawn on stone 73,000 years ago, wasn't used as shorthand for #artlovers, but the hashtag-like ...

Cave Creek artist Dick Mueller will unveil what he believes to be the world’s largest colored pencil drawing – 4 feet by 8 feet – June 13 at Nickel Creek Gallery in Cave Creek. Mueller has ...

Most cave art from 10,000 to 35,000 years ago ... in Turkey were mostly teenage girls "It was like kids taking a pencil and drawing an outline around their hand," said Dale Guthrie, a ...

“There was absolutely no doubt that these were drawn with an ocher pencil or ... a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing.

The oldest known abstract drawing has been found in South Africa's Blombos Cave -- on the face of a flake ... made with a piece of ocher used as a pencil. It was identified on the surface of ...

Art in the cave has been identified as created by early modern humans. Wikimedia image. The ability to draw, like many things, is often thought to be genetic. And if the best you can do is pencil a ...

Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Blombos Cave drawing with ochre pencil on silcrete stone. Craig Foster The Javan shell predates the recently reported cross-hatched ...