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

Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same ...

Rock art found in South Africa, and painted two centuries ago, represents how the San people imagined extinct animals that ...

It was thought they were painted some 16,000 years ago ... age is nearer in time - at about 12,000 years ago. Dating rock art is really hard. Aboriginal artists use iron oxide pigments (ochre ...

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 ...