Using an unusual dating method, scientists have identified the oldest known example of rock art in Australia. Source: https://www.livescience.com/kangaroo-art-australia-oldest.html
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Ancient rock art reveals life of the Amazon’s earliest inhabitants
A new collection of rock drawings, discovered by an international research team, appears to have been made by the Amazon’s earliest human residents 12,500 years ago, and gives us a glimpse of their lives Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262013-ancient-rock-art-reveals-life-of-the-amazons-earliest-inhabitants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Pinwheel Cave rock art in California may depict hallucinogenic ‘trance flower’
Starting about 400 years ago, Indigenous people in California had hallucinogenic ceremonies in a cave by Santa Barbara. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rock-art-hallucinogen-california.html
Divers Find Evidence of Prehistoric Mining Operation in North America
Iwastheone shared this article from CBS News:
Experts and cave divers in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have found ocher mines that are some of the oldest on the continent. Ancient skeletons were found in the narrow, twisting labyrinths of now-submerged sinkhole caves… The discovery of remains of human-set fires, stacked mining debris, simple stone tools, navigational aids and digging sites suggest humans went…
Come to know the Big and Little Dippers
The Big Dipper is easy. And, once you find it, you can find the Little Dipper, too. Source: https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/big-and-little-dippers-highlight-northern-sky…
Half-man, half-mantis petroglyph discovered
A unique rock carving of a ‘squatter mantis man’ with six limbs has been identified at a site in Iran. Discovered at the Teymareh rock art site in Ira… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335510/half-man-half-mantis-petroglyph-discovered…