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 ...

Now, that stone has been discovered by an international team of archaeologists who are calling it the earliest known drawing in history. But how solid is the find, and can it really be labeled as art?

The earliest human drawing, dating back to the Stone Age, has been found in a cave in South Africa. It is a cross-hatched pattern and was drawn with a red ochre crayon. A team of scientists from ...

The drawings are believed to have served a role in rain-making ceremonies ... The ancient carvings appear on the exterior of stone structures inside the crater area known as The Granophyre ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small stone flake marked with intersecting ... on Wednesday called the oldest-known example of human drawing. The abstract design, vaguely resembling a hashtag, was ...