The oldest painting dates as far back as 8,200 years, making it the oldest of its kind in South America, though not the world; that record is held by cave art found in Indonesia. More information ...

The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ... Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes applied to ...

Manganese was plentiful and easy to extract around Lascaux, likely explaining why it was used to create the black pigment instead of charcoal, which is commonly seen in other cave paintings across ...

It is easy to envision rituals where people stained their skin with scarlet pigment, engaging in rhythmic movements to evoke instinctive responses. When humans began creating cave paintings ...

Artists have recreated fragments of the paintings inside the museum ... 25 artists hand-painted 900 metres of faux cave, using the same pigments as those used by the prehistoric painters to ...