Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants, including the earliest known depictions ...

A massive site for ancient rock art in Norway, containing thousands of carvings and one of the most extensive and significant in northern Europe, is under threat from nearby industrial development, ...

In an extremely important archaeological discovery, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers proof that native Californians consumed hallucinogens while making ...

In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which ...

Remarkable life-size rock carvings, depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals, have been discovered in the Saudi Arabian desert, with researchers dating these ancient artworks back 12,000 years.

A researcher stands with a measuring tape, next to a large rock with multiple animal engravings. Riris et. al. Some 300 years ago, non-Indigenous travelers along the Upper and Middle Orinoco River—one ...

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The animals painted in ocher in Colombia may include giant ground sloths and other creatures that vanished from the Americas. But some researchers say the art has a more recent origin. By Becky ...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered 12,000-year-old life-sized animal etchings — "monumental rock art" that dates to over 2,000 years before humans were thought to be in the region, a new ...

The first clear evidence that Native Americans consumed hallucinogenic plants at rock art sites has been found in the Pinwheel Cave in Southern California, according to new research. The cave is home ...