Dargan Shelter: Australia’s oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains; the study is published in Nature Human Behaviour
Finnish prehistoric rock paintings (5000–1500 BCE) on the cliffs rising directly from the lakes are acoustically special environments
Rock art and archaeological record from Cerro Azul reveal man’s complex relationship with Amazonian animals, according to a new study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Fungi and lichens pose deadly threat to 5,000-year-old rock art in the Negev desert; those famous petroglyphs are at risk of destruction
An investigation of the assemblage of rock paintings in the Cova del Tabac (Camarasa, Lleida), by applying 3D methods combined with hyperspectral cameras
Humans occupied a lava tube called Umm Jirsan, in Saudi Arabia, for thousands of years: bones and artifacts indicate a timeline of herding and agriculture in northern Arabia
New research has uncovered internationally significant rock art sites in Arnhem Land were far from random and instead “chosen” for the critical vantage points they provided
There is no proof that ‘Homo naledi’ exhibited cognitively advanced behaviors, such as intentional burial of the dead and rock art
Long-term history of violence in hunter-gatherer societies uncovered in the Atacama Desert: 10,000 years of violent conflict revealed by skeletons, weaponry, and rock art
Stone age artists carved detailed human and animal tracks in rock art from the Doro !Nawas Mountains in central Western Namibia; the study is published on PLoS ONE
