A hand stencil pressed onto the wall of a limestone cave on Indonesia’s Muna Island has been dated to at least 67,800 years ...
Pigment sampling at a claviform rock art figure in Tebellín, Spain. (Alberto Martínez Villa/Bossoms Mesa et al., Nat. Commun.
An international research team has recovered ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA directly from cave wall materials in ...
DNA preservation on cave walls is highly variable, but scientists say their work is an important step on the path toward ...
Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United States experienced significant shifts in temperature and rainfall over the last ...
From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient ...
Though most high-quality calcite-alabaster items here were thought to be made in Egypt, a new multidisciplinary Israeli study shows otherwise. King Herod the Great, king of Judea in the second half of ...