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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Plymouth Rock is likely not where the Pilgrims landed for the first time. But it doesn't make the destination any less ...
A tourist guide introduces to visitors at the Twyfelfontein rock engraving site in Kunene Region, Namibia, March 26, 2024. Twyfelfontein is one of the largest and most concentrated sites of rock ...
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 ...