In collaboration with Indigenous elders and ritual specialists, archaeologists have shed light on the meaning of ancient rock art from the Amazon rainforest in a study. A trio of researchers has been ...

A drawing of a claw-like hand on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art in the world. The ...

ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART. Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and comƯpromises, and how to live with them / Anne-Sophie Hygen -- Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam Rock ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

Linear Naturalistic Figure (LNF) of a macropod along with digital outline (© Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation and Kimberley Visions; all photos courtesy Ana Paula Motta) Archaeologists in Australia ...

Digital tracings of the two large human figures dated in a radiocarbon study of rock art on the cave walls of Gua Sireh in Borneo. The figures are identified as GS3 (left) and GS4. (Huntley et al., ...

Deep in the Colombian Amazon, a team of scholars worked with Indigenous elders to interpret a 12-mile-long stretch of 11,000-year-old rock art. Researchers now believe that the art tells a spiritual ...

Archaeologist and anthropologist Sue Smalldon sits among ancient rocks at Deep Gorge on the Burrup peninsula in the north of Western Australia [File: Greg Wood/AFP] The United Nations cultural ...

“The Dreaming” isn’t quite the right way to put it. For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the Dreaming was a period when giants walked the earth, forming the landscape as we know it through their ...

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