Newly deciphered drawings in the Gua Sireh Cave show the Bidayuh Indigenous people’s violent struggle against their oppressors, researchers say.
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Ancient Cave Painters May Have Limited Their Oxygen for Creative Inspiration
Cavernous conditions and fire may have contributed to an “altered states of consciousness.”
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Graffiti on Pre-Columbian Cave Paintings Caused Irreversible Damage
Officials in Chile failed to protect the 1,400-year-old cave paintings, which are currently under no surveillance.
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Caribbean Cave Art Illustrates Indigenous People’s Early Encounters With Europeans
In the subterranean network of caves on Mona Island, 41 miles west of Puerto Rico, archaeologists have discovered a series of engravings by both indigenous people and the early European colonizers.
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175,000-Year-Old Cave Structures Suggest Neanderthals Were Quite Advanced
Sure, the 14,000-year-old cave paintings recently found in Spain are impressive, with their romping bison and horses, but a far older ancient art mystery is being untangled in France.
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These Indonesian Cave Paintings May Overturn Eurocentric Art History
New dating of rock art in Indonesia shows that at the same time stampedes of bulls and horses were appearing in the Ardèche caves in France, similar art was being made in the Pacific region.
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Prehistoric Australian Rock Art in Danger of Serious Deterioration
Australia’s Aboriginal cave art is at risk of disappearance within 50 years, according to an expert quoted in the Guardian‘s recent investigation of the the threats facing the prehistoric art.
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New Evidence that Neanderthals Made Art
Researchers have uncovered further evidence that human ancestors may have begun producing cave art earlier than previously thought. A
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Archeologists Discover Nearly 5,000 Ancient Cave Paintings in Mexico
Archeologists have discovered nearly 5,000 ancient paintings that depict humans, animals, astronomical imagery, and abstract designs in a series of caves in Mexico. Located near the Sierra de San Carlos mountain range, in the Burgos region of northeastern Mexico, the paintings are the work of three different hunter-gatherer groups that lived in the area before the early 16th-century Spanish conquest, the BBC reported.
