Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America — believed to be among the largest in the world — were meant to mark the boundaries of the territories inhabited by their makers, according to a new ...
How do you find out the age of ancient rock art? And more importantly, how can you do that without disturbing the site? Meinrat and Tracey Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry recently ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The rock art panel shows a boat dragged by five figures. It has a standing figure holding an oar ...
Rock panel featuring many engravings including a ~42m-long snake. Credit: the authors Archaeologists have mapped 14 sites featuring the world's largest monumental engravings, proposing that they were ...
Plymouth Rock is likely not where the Pilgrims landed for the first time. But it doesn't make the destination any less ...
Ph.D. student Lena Dubinsky and Prof. Leore Grosman from the Computational Archaeology Laboratory at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology have pioneered a new method to study rock ...
Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into the world's largest rock engravings, proposing that they may have been intended to mark territorial boundaries. The pre-Hispanic (or ...
A faint engraving of a reindeer in a South Wales cave looks to be among the oldest rock art known in Britain. Researchers completed an analysis on July 27 that dated the image at roughly 12,600 years ...
Dr Tammy Hodgskiss is the curator at the Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand. Prof Amanda Esterhuysen manages the Origins Centre, and is a member of the School of Geography, Archaeology ...
Kerala's Erikulam Valiyapara unveils megalithic rock engravings of cow and deer, enhancing insights into ancient rock art ...
VALLEYFORD, Wash. – Vinnie Pecht has a very simple description of what he does for a living. “I basically engrave rocks,” said Pecht, the owner of Industrial Custom Creations. “So whatever somebody ...