A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

For the past 40 years, hiking rugged terrain has been a necessary part of research for archeologists at University of Alicante. The mountains around Alicante and Valencia teem with prehistoric cave ...

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, ...

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Is it possible for us to understand the meaning behind prehistoric rock art? In this video, ancient historian Tristan ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ancient sky. The 6,000-year rock art there does more than record animals ...

Over 2,000 Stone Age carvings could be damaged if plans for a new quarry on the Aksla mountain go ahead. The Vingen rock art site, with one of the petroglyphs visible in the foreground. Photo courtesy ...

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The next time you’re feeling creative, why not pick up a rock and transform it into something beautiful and inspirational? While rock painting technically dates back to prehistoric times, it's gained ...

Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments. When the lake levels have remained unchanged, these extremely ...