Dating rock art is difficult. Chips of paint—likely contaminated with all different sources of carbon due to centuries and sometimes millennia of weathering—are first removed from the delicate pieces ...

An artist works on a piece of rock pigment painting in Wuyishan City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Dec. 5, 2025.

Researchers successfully date Australia's oldest intact rock painting, using pioneering radiocarbon technique. A two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia's Kimberley region has been ...

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The maliwawa image collected from the aboriginal Namunidjbuk estate in the Wellington Range of Australia depicts a macropod. (Courtesy of Paul Taçon, Griffith University) The maliwawa image collected ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mystery surrounding the ancient rock paintings of Utah's Black Dragon Canyon has finally been ...

Archaeologists have recently made a remarkable discovery in South Africa: a 200-year-old rock painting that may depict a creature unknown to modern science. This creature, if it indeed existed, is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creationists and researchers have long debated how to interpret the rock art adorning Black ...

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It's a simple act of kindness that's making a big impact in communities across the country. From Vermont to Arizona, rock painting groups are brightening the days of strangers — one colorful rock at a ...