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 ...

The lead scientist on a globally-significant Aboriginal rock art project claimed a WA government agency put a "very rosy spin" on his team's scientific results, 7.30 can reveal. Emails obtained via ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a giant rock in the Colombian Amazon bearing extensive ochre paintings of animals dating back to 12,500 years ago, a discovery that sheds light on the mythologies and ...

The camels at Jebel Misma have been frozen in a march for 12,000 years. “They are really spectacular,” says paleoanthropologist Michael Petraglia. “They’re beautiful, monumental.” Rock art has been ...

Benjamin Smith receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. Neither of these funding bodies provided funding for the research ...