It’s no good for studying inorganic pigments like ocher, a form of iron oxide used frequently in ancient cave paintings. This is where Aubert comes in. Instead of analyzing pigment from the ...

Determining the age of cave art is delicate work. Ruiz-Redondo and his team are awaiting a full laboratory analysis of Cova Dones’ motifs—including radiometric dating of their crusty mineral ...

The analysis found that at least one of the prints ... by far, the oldest known cave art in the world, and were created at least 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa ...

Discoveries in Indonesia's Leang Karampuang cave unveil a 51,200 ... dating process involved analyzing calcite layers deposited by water over time, which protect the paintings and help determine ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

Ancient rock paintings have been uncovered in a cave within Brazil's Itatiaia National ... The article was written with the assistance of a news analysis system.

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were ...

I had never seen a cave painting before, so I didn’t know what ... as researchers are still unable to estimate how long the analysis will take. “At this stage, the focus is on full ...