In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

The standard view was that Neolithic farmers or other Stone Age people made ... the prospect of analyzing cave paintings in Africa. “99.9 percent of rock art is undated,” says Smith, citing ...

Rocks were ground up to make pigments -- black and ochre were the main ones -- which were then sometimes applied to outlines of figures first engraved into the stone and at others painted directly ...

Stone takes antique artefacts as a point of focus, using old paintings and sculptures as both a reference and as the physical support for his own works ...