An ancient handprint in a cave on an Indonesian island may be the oldest known rock art, created at least 67,800 years ago.
The hand stencil is more than 1,000 years older than the previous earliest evidence of rock art.
The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...
Rock art is one of the most intriguing records of the human past – it directly represents how our ancestors viewed their world. This provides a fundamentally different perspective compared to other ...
Rock paintings offered more than just visuals for some prehistoric people. A new study by five Helsinki-based researchers examines the echoes produced by rock formations with paintings dating back ...