The indoor environment is mainly illuminated by ambient lighting from buried lamps and functional lighting from the table, ...

Credit: Antiquity/Gideon Shelach-Lavi et al/Dan Golan/Cover Images Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres. The excavations on a ...

Humans, ever aware of and influenced by our surroundings, have a fundamental need to define and personalize our spaces. The physical environment in which our life unfolds, whether at home, ...

The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta ...

Chemical analysis of the matte, earthy tones that have survived to the present day on the cave walls revealed they were largely derived from minerals mixed with water to act as a binder.

Among the more interesting discoveries was a large engraved dolomite boulder, positioned in a niche along a back cave wall. The etchings resembled a turtle and date back between 35-37,000 years ago.

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DSI-NRF African Origins Platform. A mysterious animal painted on a cave wall in South Africa’s Free State Province has long baffled scientists.

The surveying involved handheld laser readers that hit the cave walls to provide the distance, bearing and inclination between the device and the cave walls. Photo shows A man with a head torch ...

Many thousands of years ago, one or more stone-age humans used a red-hued ochre pigment to depict what looks like a pig hunt on the wall of a cave on what is now the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The red-pigment scene painted on the cave wall depicts human-like figures, some of whom are wielding spears or ropes, alongside much larger creatures that resemble pigs or cloven-hoofed mammals.