Articles
- Updates to our public rock art sitesLooking for a weekend rock art get away? We've made some updates to our public rock art sites interactive map. All the sites on the list are actively managed for public visitation. Changes include a new site Rock Hawk, direction maps to Rock Eagle and Serpent Mound, better access to embedded VR models in Chauvet, Mt Irish and The Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon.Read more
- Persistence of PlaceSome places become important to humans and remain so across thousands of years and multiple cultures.Read more
- Southern Utah Petroglyph BouldersWe have loaded a VR model of petroglyph boulders in Utah optimized for the Oculus headset.Read more
- Cave Art Images from New ZealandNew Zealand is one of the last major land masses to be explored and permanently settled by human beings. Max Wisshak has added his photographs of those explorers artwork to the Ancient Art Archvie.Read more
Modern Ancient ArtModern art concepts like cubism have their origins in the oldest artworks on the planet. Our brains are hard wired for abstraction.Read more- Native American Cave Art Over 1000-Years-Old Revealed by 3D ScansGiant Cave Art images discovered using 3D modeling. This expands our knowledge of the Woodland Culture world view.Read more
- Naj Tunich Cave Maya pictographsThe Maya pictographs in Naj Tunich Cave rocked the world of Maya archaeology when they were discovered.Read more
Indigenous Cave Explorers of the Southeastern USIndisputable evidence proves Indigenous Americans ventured as far as 3 miles into southeastern caves 5,000 years before the invention of electric light. Native Americans were excellent cave explorers.Read more- Esplanade Polychrome styleEsplanade Polychrome style is known from only a handful of rock art sites in Mojave County Arizona.Read more
Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian. The Precontact Native American Cultures of Southeastern United StatesArchaic, Woodland, and Mississippian the pre contact Native American Cultures of the Southeastern US.Read more- Are the Serranía de la Lindosa paintings 12,000 years old?Are the Serrania de la Lindosa Colombia paintings 12,000 years old? They could be but why are they so well preserved?Read more
- Venus of Willendorf is ItalianThe Venus of Willendorf, a 35,000 year old statue found in Austria has its roots in ItalyRead more
- Blythe Intaglios, Geoglyphs of the Lower Colorado RiverThe Blythe Intaglios are so large they can be seen from space. However, they were only noticed by non Native Americans in the 1930.Read more
Panel of the Four Horses, Chauvet in VRThe panel of the Four Horses in Chauvet Pont d'Arc cave is now online in VRRead more
Devilstep Hollow CavePeople we refer to as Mississippian used Devilstep Hollow cave as a ceremonial space. Explore the artwork and symbols sealed insideRead more
