A painted panel deep in a Spanish cave may push the human relationship with mind-altering plants back thousands of years, earlier than anything previously known.
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A new study has retrieved human genetic material from the walls of caves with ancient rock art.
A recent study provides evidence that Neanderthals used rhinoceros teeth as tools.
People were creating cave art in Indonesia 67,800 years ago – before modern humans reached Australia.
Figurative art presents lifelike representations of subjects. Using a new laser technique, we’ve dated figurative rock art painted 51,200 years ago.
Rock art from a Malagasy cave hints at some remarkable cultural connections.
New dates for the rock art in the Gua Sireh cave in Malaysia reveal resistance to frontier violence between 1670 and 1830.
A team of US archaeologists have revealed cave art almost 2,000 years old.
For thousands of years, Native Americans left their artistic mark deep within caves in the American Southeast. It wasn’t until 1980 that these ancient visual expressions were known to archaeologists.
The ancient cave paintings have only begun to tell us about the lives of the earliest people who lived in Australasia. The art is disappearing just as we are beginning to understand its significance.
It’s possible that low oxygen levels in caves produced hallucinations – but that doesn’t explain the majority of prehistoric art.
Some 17,000 years ago, Aboriginal artists often depicted kangaroos, fish, birds, reptiles, echidnas and plants — especially yams.
A recent cave art discovery in remote Indonesia is changing our understanding of the beginnings of art and the emergence of religious-like thinking in the early human story.
The cave paintings in Borneo show people and animals and are now thought to be the world’s oldest example of figurative art.
Ancient bone and teeth ornaments found in an Indonesian cave advance our knowledge of the culture and traditions of some of the earliest people in our region.
DNA analysis suggests that a newly discovered species of bison roamed Europe some 17,000 years ago - as prehistoric cave artists were trying to tell us all along.
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Professor of Archaeology, Griffith University
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Professor of Archaeological Science, Griffith University
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Research Centre of Archeometry, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN)
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Professor in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Professor in Geochronology and Geochemistry, Southern Cross University
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Director, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Te Aka Mātuatua - School of Science, University of Waikato
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Professor of Conservation Paleobiology, National Tropical Botanical Garden, and Adjunct Professor, University of Hawaii
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Cultural Research, Griffith University
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Chair in Rock Art Research and Director of the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit (PERAHU), Griffith University
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ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne