In the spring of 1852, U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert Carrington in ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

Red Beds and Rusted Rock Across Continents. These extreme climate cycles likely caused widespread oxidation – essentially, rusting – of surface sediments. Over time, this process produced reddish rock ...

In his 1768 book about Native Americans, early Tennessee historian John Haywood described images of the sun and moon, a man, birds, fish, etc., that were painted on bluffs in the Fork. The book Scenic ...

Collapsing the distinction between sculpture and painting, she imbued dense layers of encaustic paint with an almost bas-relief dimensionality. Linear slashes and curved incisions reveal bands of ...

Although Davis was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 2018, his rock 'n' roll contributions have largely been overlooked.

A Native American-led coalition is pressing the Biden administration to designate three new national monuments in California, with some fearing the chance to protect these areas from mining ...

A cliff on the west shore of Flathead Lake, known as “Painted Rocks,” is adorned with early Native American pictographs, as seen on July 11, 2022. The first pictographs on the cliff are ...

Satellite technology built in the 1990s to create detailed maps of Earth is providing deeper insight into one of the most common Native American rock art motifs found in central Montana, the ...

Paint Rock, a half-mile-long bluff in central Texas, is home to roughly 1,500 painted Native American glyphs dating back hundreds to thousands of years.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — It's a summer marked by detours as downtown Rock Island gets a facelift. After years of planning, the City broke ground in April on a $8.7 million downtown revival project ...

The Bears Ears monument is known for its Native American rock art as much as for its spectacular landscapes. One treasure still inside the monument, even after President Donald Trump cut its area ...