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- 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
- Rock Art in Texas DefacedLate last year vandals irreparably damaged a rock art petroglyph panel in Big Bend National Park. 2021 was a hard year for United States rock art with major instances of vandalism reported in Utah (here, here) and now closing the year in Texas. Anyone with information about the incident in Texas should contact the Big Bend National Park Communication Center at 432-477-1187. Detailed view of vandalism in Big Bend National Park, Texas photo via NPS The National Park Service reports that there have been over 50 instances of vandalism to rock art in Big Bend since 2015. Read more at Art News (here) and Texas Monthly (here). At the Ancient Art Archive, we believe that the only long-term solution to vandalism is education. We must build a long term and wide spread appreciation for the images our predecessors left written on the landscape. To that end we have built education...Read more
- Dating Rock Art, How Old Is It?paintings in El Castillo in Spain are more than 40,000 years old, much older than previously suspectedRead more