1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (349+ words) Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions. About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (451+ words) Provenance is everything in the art world. Auction houses spend years tracing the ownership history of a painting from one collector to the next. But for some of humanity’s oldest works of art, the provenance goes cold tens of thousands…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (291+ words) The Postclassic period of Maya civilization (800–1500 CE) was marked by significant environmental and societal stressors, including prolonged droughts and a shift from centralized authority to smaller, competitive polities. A new excavation at an archaeological site in Belize shows how despite…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (317+ words) A recent analysis of ochre fragments from several Neanderthal sites indicated that Neanderthals used ochre for drawing and marking surfaces. It has been long-believed that Neanderthals used the iron-rich pigment to adorn their bodies, clothing, and surfaces. Many ancient civilizations,…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (547+ words) Many questions about the famous moai statues on Easter Island, Chile, have long eluded scholars—from their cultural significance to how they were made and transported. A recent study in the Journal of Archaeological Science by archaeologists Carl Lipo of…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (259+ words) Scientists have named new snail discovered in Thailand Anauchen picasso after the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Remember the taxonomy mnemonic you learned in high school biology? It will come in handy again while trying to parse the news about the…...