Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Neanderthals decorated themselves with feathers, drew cave ...

Like his father and grandfather, Inoke “Male” Pomale is a master carver. He works with local cow bones, bison bones from Montana, and fossilized mammoth and whale bones from Alaska and Siberia. Inoke ...

PARIS — The design may be simple, but a chevron pattern etched onto a deer bone more than 50,000 years ago suggests that Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans arrived on ...

The first known depiction of an animal from the Americas is an image of a mammoth engraved on a mammoth bone, suggests a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Photo by Yana Deynega Artisans from Russia’s far north work passionately to carve figurines, knives, jewelry and other objects from mammoth and walrus tusks. For centuries, the art of the bone carving ...

A tiny 13,300-year-old bone carving of bird unearthed at a rubbish tip has been hailed as 'China's oldest work of art' by an international team of scientists. The small bird carving, recovered from ...

Kashmir (Jammu & Kashmir) [India], August 31 (ANI): 22-year-old Aziz-ul Rehman from the Gulab Bagh area of Srinagar is the first youth in Jammu and Kashmir who has mastered the art of making various ...

A Virginia artist is making thousands of dollars not just by using his head, but using the skulls of others. Zane Wylie carves intricate designs on to real human skulls he has obtained legally, ...

In the heart of Lucknow, where culture breathes through narrow lanes and timehonoured traditions, an ancient art quietly endures—bone carving, a practice where skilled hands transform humble remains ...

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