Metaphors of cooking and eating are a firm favourite among writers on multiculturalism. No comment on cultural contact seems ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - The painted outline of a human hand inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Muna represents what researchers are calling the oldest example of rock art in the world, created at ...

Northwest of Del Rio, where the Pecos River meets the Rio Grande, there are dozens of caves and rock shelters decorated with ...

One in three Australian women now have a tattoo, and most don’t stop at one. What is the compulsion to keep adding ink?

From the Northern Territory to the riverbanks of New South Wales, a new wave of First Nations designers is reinterpreting Country, culture and craft. Across hand-carved jewellery, sculptural couture, ...

It is a sunny Spring morning at Government House, Yarralumla. Staff carefully manage the arrival of guests like clockwork as ...

Quote of the day by Leonardo da Vinci: Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds in human history and a true symbol of the Renaissance. Born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy, he was not only a legendary ...

The fingers of one of the hands were "retouched to become pointed like claws," the study's co-author said.

Writing, to me, has always been a powerful cycle of disconnecting and reconnecting. Living in Lebanon, a country of continuous political tension, I figured that I needed some certainty in my life. I ...

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

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The prehistoric artist likely created the image by spraying ochre mixed with water over a hand flattened on the wall of a ...