A hand stencil design on the wall of a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kinez Riza A recently released study claiming that some of the paintings in the Maros-Pangkep caves in Indonesia are nearly as old ...

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.

The discovery of ancient rock art goes far beyond visual appreciation. Recent studies have uncovered that prehistoric artists intentionally painted in places where sound played an essential role in ...

Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...

The Ennedi rock art of Chad should not be read as decoration alone, but as a visual narrative of environmental change.

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...

Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain have uncovered a rock which contains ancient prehistoric engravings, Ancient Origins reported. The remarkable artifact was discovered in the Coto Correa site in ...

The study of rock art and the analysis of its pigments represent a critical convergence of archaeology, materials science and chemistry. These interdisciplinary investigations not only elucidate the ...

Large rock-face murals scattered across the desert in northern Saudi Arabia represent one of the most ambitious – and perilous – creative feats of ancient humans, with researchers arguing that the ...