The Neanderthal bone carving. Image: V. Minkus/NLD Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer are signs that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought.

For centuries, the art of the bone carving has been an integral part of life in the village of Kholmogory, which is 60 km away from the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk. Its origins can be ...

he 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 ...

With the support of his wife, Kisaea, Male’s Finest Bone Carving was formed and is now based in Kahuku on Oahu. The business has regular stalls at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki and at the Hale Koa Hotel, ...

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.

But is this bone carving with its chevron patterns really art? Dr. Terberger prefers to call it a complex decoration, perhaps a precursor to art.

Scientists have discovered a giant deer toe bone, engraved by Neanderthals — a hint that our ancient cousins had conceptual imagination.

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.

By carving auspicious images, animals or grassland scenery on the bones, he has been keeping alive Mongolian bone carving, although its traditional functions have been gradually lost in modern times.