Abstract patterns carved on bone fragments discovered in China could be the oldest art ever made, dating back to between 105,000 and 125,000 years ago. The marks on two bones were found at a site in ...

Two animal bone fragments decorated with abstract engravings and dating to 105,000-125,000 years ago have been unearthed in China. The etchings on one of these bones are filled with ochre, providing ...

Death hovers above my head. Scythe in one hand and scales in the other, he stares down at me. Skeletons greet me, bowing their heads and imploring me to pray. There are bones before me, bones behind ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

The engraved deer bone, which was found in a cave in Germany. ScienceAlert / YouTube According to new research that was published this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, a bone ...

Growing up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, D.C. Wilson spent a lot of time in the woods and saw animal bones in nature. But it wasn’t until six years ago that she started her own personal collection.

From pelvises, vertebrae, and mandibles to ram’s skulls, mule skulls, and even human skulls, painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an avid collector of bones. And they often showed up as elements ...