Expert trackers have been able to identify the species depicted in around 400 animal footprints carved on rocks in Namibia during the Stone Age ... doubt that ancient carvings that look like ...

A 100-metre length of it nicknamed "Chop Alley" has been the home of Chinese stone seal makers since the ... which often features intricate carvings of auspicious creatures.

In the Later Stone Age of southern Africa between around 5,000 years and 1,000 years ago, for instance, ancient artists covered the surface of cliffs in modern-day Namibia with carvings of human and ...

Engravings at the study site depict animal tracks ... are too dry for them. But the carvings suggest the region could have been wetter during the Later Stone Age, allowing more species to live ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts ... You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. Rare stone carvings have been uncovered hidden underneath ...

Other sculptures and carvings, unearthed by the archaeologists ... they were able to make everything they needed from stone, bone, wood, animal skin, reeds and plants. For them, stone was the ...

Erik Kjellmann was helping excavate the ruins of a Stone Age settlement at Sør ... Outlines show some of the 6,000-year-old animal carvings. Screengrab from YouTube video shared by Science ...

Remi Benali Photo from Rémi Bénali and INRAP Two of these carvings were 22,000 ... photos show. The animal’s nose reaches the far left edge of the stone, its ears almost touch the top, and ...

Beginning in the Stone Age, Neolithic herders descended into ... Archaeologists at Umm Jirsan recently found animal bones dating from 400 years to more than 4,000 years ago, and human remains ...

A rare toy dating to the Viking Age was found during an archaeological excavation in Iceland. Even though the time period the toy comes from is known by researchers, the animal the figure ...

Spanish archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an ancient stone with perplexing symbols carved onto it. The symbols, experts believe, are actually an ancient alphabet. If their ...