Modern Crayola fans are part of a surprising lineage. Archaeologists discover Mesolithic people probably liked to draw with crayons, too. When you want to draw, you might reach for a box of Crayola ...

A scraped and ground ocher crayon used by Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago. (Scale bar: 1 centimeter). | Credit: d'Errico et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadx4722; CC BY 4.0 Neanderthals crafted red ...

The pieces of pigment were discovered on opposite sides of the ancient lake in North Yorkshire. One of the ancient chunks of red ochre— a type of reddish-brown clay used by prehistoric people around ...

Two chunks of ocher unearthed at ancient rock shelters in Ukraine were actually Neanderthal crayons, according to a recent study. The pair of artifacts, unearthed from layers 47,000 and 46,000 years ...

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Sometime in the Stone Age, human artists began experimenting with a new form of visual art: drawing. Now, from the ancient rubble that accumulated on the floor of a South African cave comes the ...