Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples. Paint Rock, a half-mile-long bluff in central Texas, is home to roughly 1,500 painted Native ...

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 ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across southwest Texas and northern Mexico. They depict human-like figures that ...

The discovery of rare painted rock art featuring cattle in one of the driest parts of the Sahara Desert indicates that the region was once covered in grass, swamps and waterholes, making it a resource ...

The rock art depicts animals, human and hand figures, reptiles, geometric patterns, honey bees, human figures with elongated ...

A remarkable set of prehistoric rock art sites likely provided hunter-gatherers with an enchanting "multisensory experience" thanks to their special acoustic properties, a study has revealed.

A mysterious example of Indigenous rock art from South Africa may depict a "strange" animal that lived more than 200 million years ago and went extinct long before the appearance of the first humans, ...

African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called dicynodonts. Abundant, exposed fossils in South Africa’s Karoo Basin ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, ...

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—According to a Newsweek report, a new study of the Horned Serpent Panel, a rock wall at the La Belle France site painted by the San people at least 200 years ago, suggests ...