"Supposedly 'simple' or everyday motifs such as textiles or blankets are in fact ritualistic clothing that shamans put on in ...

The area of Serranía de la Lindosa, a 12-mile-long sandstone outcrop in Colombia, contains thousands of rock art motifs that ...

an archaeologist and rock-art specialist at Durham University told Nature. The team analysed calcite "popcorn" that had built up on the painting. Radioactive uranium in the mineral slowly decays ...

Rock art found in the Amazon rainforest carries images of the area's earliest inhabitants living alongside giant Ice Age creatures, researchers say. The paintings are estimated to have been made ...