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 ...

The standout images are ships, some carved upright, others upside down, packed with small human figures whose heads are unusually clearly defined. Fjeld and his daughter also spotted the “sole of a ...

On a humid island at the edge of Asia, a single human hand pressed against stone has reached across 67,800 years to meet our ...

The world’s oldest known rock art, dating back at least 67,800 years, has been discovered in an Indonesian cave.

Hidden deep in Colombia’s Amazon rainforest, a vast cliff face covered in ochre figures has turned a remote canyon into one of the most important Ice Age archives on Earth. The newly documented rock ...

About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to mark the ...

Driven by a group of passionate artists, collectors, and community leaders, our Museum was born from a shared vision to make Blowing Rock more than just a scenic stop. Their dream was to be a vibrant ...

The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum is featuring the exhibit, "Daingerfield & the Tonalist Instinct" until October 19. The museum encourages the public to make time during leaf season to see how ...

Melbourne, Jan 22 (The Conversation) When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the ...

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 ...