Many of the motifs depict animals: female red deer, wild horses and now-extinct ... Determining the age of cave art is delicate work. Ruiz-Redondo and his team are awaiting a full laboratory ...

paintings of jaguar, tapir and red deer (shown here, c. 10,000 B.C.) interact with human figures in scenes that include dancing and hunting. Niède Guidon / Bradshaw Foundation Coliboaia Cave ...

The multicolored cascades of prey and predator animals -- bison, deer, bears ... The oldest representational cave painting dates from about 30,000 years ago. Most date from 20,000 years ago ...

Scientists have determined the reddish-brown rock art found in a cave on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island is more than 44,000 ...

The cave was previously examined, and several of the art were considered to be incomplete ... previously unnoticed animal ...