"If charcoal was used as a rock art pigment in ancient Aboriginal rock art, then we have yet to find any surviving examples in Australia." So the scientists turned to mud wasps nests built under ...

Whereas most examples of San avian rock art, such as depictions of kingfishers, swifts, vultures or herons, can only be identified to family level, we contend that identification to species level ...

Art painted on rocks are some of the earliest recorded attempts at human communication, with some of the oldest examples of animal depictions found in Sulawesi, Indonesia. However, it has proven a ...

He said this while delivering a lecture on 'Prehistoric Art in the Vindhyas, Uttar Pradesh and North Central India' held during a rock art exhibition jointly organised by Bharat Kala Bhawan ...

That long-ago creation in the unnamed cavern adds fuel to the argument that rock art in Australia goes back even earlier to the continent’s first inhabitants, researchers contend. This discovery ...

"It's a beautiful set of images." People have debated the depiction, an example of rock art in the Barrier Canyon style, since its discovery in 1928. In 1947, Geggel reports, a man named John ...

If that’s the case, the artifact could be the earliest known example of humans creating art resembling another species, according to a study published in the journal Rock Art Research.