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.

A new book authored by a Canadian archaeologist explores an ancient Indigenous art practice known as rock painting, uncovering unique histories and stories that span generations. Brad Himour's book ...

a rock art scholar at the University of Western Australia. In that sense, ancient art is a marker for this cognitive shift: Find early paintings, particularly figurative representations like ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Art lovers, historians, and cultural enthusiasts are invited to explore this extraordinary artistic journey that revives the ...

The drawings differ from many of the prehistoric cave paintings discovered from the ... it could be one of the oldest examples of rock art known to man.

Thanks to conservation efforts, many of these ancient rock paintings have been preserved ... Ubirr also contains examples of European "contact art," such as a painting of a white man—likely ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rock painting ... ancient horned serpent traversing the lands is both mesmerizing and eerie. Recent fossil finds in the Karoo Basin and the intriguing rock art ...

Study shows prehistoric children may have participated in cave art because they were considered mediators between the ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young ...

A team of Tel Aviv University researchers from the field of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis ...

These yet unnamed site at Serranía de la Lindosa isn't the first discovery of ancient art work in the Colombian Amazon. Around 75,000 rock art paintings have been found in Chiribiquete National ...