A fragmented painting of a pig-deer or babirusa (Babyrousa sp.) and hand stencil from one of the caves in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza Modern critics would probably hail the up and coming rock ...

Scientists in India have discovered rock art that appears to depict a supernova and the surrounding stars, buried inside the wall of an ancient dwelling place. Thought to date from 3,600 BC, the ...

Rock art found in southeastern Venezuela may have come from a previously unknown culture. Researchers believe that the roughly 4,000-year-old art signifies a central dispersion point from which ...

A new scientific dating technique used on a mineral layer coating Kimberley rock art shelters shows the rock carvings may be up to 43,000 years old — among the oldest in the world. A new dating ...

It combines geometrical patterns with organic curves — triangular and rectangular ... almost as if a prehistoric art tradition displaying both simplicity and strength. The childbirth rock painting is ...

The Heritage Commission announced the discovery and documentation of an exceptional group of life-size early rock art engravings, estimated to date back between 11,400 and 12,800 years.The findings, ...

Originally published on December 7, 2019. Detective work by a Canadian anthropologist has revealed the sophistication and creativity of ancient Indigenous artists in B.C. who made pigments for their ...

There’s something intriguing, even frightening, about the image of an ancient horned serpent roaming across the land. Thanks to some suggestive fossils and legends of old, talk of such a creature ...

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Researchers successfully date Australia's oldest intact rock painting, using pioneering radiocarbon technique. A two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia's Kimberley region has been ...

These are the remains of the supernova explosion of Cassiopeia A, which is 11,000 light years away from Earth. NASA/JPL Rock art, dating back 5,000 years, was discovered in India and may be the oldest ...