"We interpret the monumental rock art as a unique tradition of engraving, which likely emerged in response to a social milieu of intense contact and interaction between diverse Indigenous groups ...

Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America ... and the role played by the snakes in the mythology of the indigenous people of the area, said Riris, a senior lecturer in archaeological ...

Local Indigenous peoples still incorporate the ... of Bergen in Norway who was not involved in the study. Though the rock engravings themselves are inorganic and thus can’t be radiocarbon ...

Indigenous advocates in Western ... There are more than 10,000 rock engravings in the Burrup Peninsula, an area with one of the most prolific Aboriginal rock art sites in Australia — with ...

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 ...

The archaeologists discovered the figurine in the Damjili Cave, which was first explored by archaeologists in 1953. Layers within the cave show a high density of Neolithic settlements, and trace life ...

Researchers have uncovered fascinating new insights into the world's largest rock engravings, proposing that they may have been intended to mark territorial boundaries. The pre-Hispanic (or pre ...