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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The paintings are older than Europe’s famed cave art such as Lascaux in France, and, while younger than some geometric abstract art found in South Africa, it’s the oldest of a narrative scene ...

But tucked within the outcrops is something even more spectacular: a vast and ancient gallery of cave art. Hundreds of hands wave in outline from the ceilings, fingers outstretched inside bursts ...