An amateur archaeologist from Oxfordshire named Hamish Fenton stumbled upon the oldest animal rock carvings in Scotland, possibly even the oldest of their type in the entirety of the United Kingdom.

African rock art is extremely diverse from region to region. In Southern Africa, for example, the San people produced detailed paintings of animals and scenes of hunting. In North Africa's Sahara ...

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Industrial threats to Aboriginal rock art and other ancient sites will be in focus when the World Archaeological Congress meets in Australia for the first time.

Eileen Cummings, a Charles Darwin University fellow and co-chair of the conference's Indigenous Elders Committee, said the protection of Aboriginal rock art and ancient sites would be discussed at the ...