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 ...

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In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

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 ...

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The petroglyphs were discovered in prominently visible locations on cliff sides and boulder facades.(all photos via Nature Communications per CC BY 4.0) A trove of life-sized animal rock engravings ...

Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...

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A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.