Work of preventive conservation in a rock wall with prehistoric paintings at the Serra da Capivara National Park.

The tradition of wall painting can be traced back to Indian rock art paintings that date back to 4000 BC.

In the prehistoric period, Chad was much wetter than it is today, as evidenced by large game animals depicted in rock paintings in the Tibesti and Borkou regions.

Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1, 000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

The earliest known Indian paintings ( see section below ) were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, the petroglyphs as found in places like the Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, ( see above ) and some of them are older than 5500 BC.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

There are compositions for paintings, studies of details and drapery, studies of faces and emotions, of animals, babies, dissections, plant studies, rock formations, whirlpools, war machines, helicopters and architecture.

They are responsible for rock paintings found south of Lilongwe in Chencherere and Mphunzi.

European rock drawings and cave paintings reveal that moose have been hunted since the Stone Age.

Remarkable rock paintings, many found in the Aïr Mountains, dated 3, 500 to 2, 500 BCE, portray vegetation and animal presence rather different from modern expectations.

Inscriptions have been found beneath each of the rock paintings, but archaeologists have so far been unable to decipher this form of ancient writing.

The latter are petroglyphs and rock paintings.

They also point out that caves inhabited by Aborigines have a low proportion of bones and rock paintings of devils, and suggest that this is an indication that it was not a large part of indigenous lifestyle.

Later rock paintings and engravings showing hippos being hunted have been found in the mountains of the central Sahara dated 4, 000 – 5, 000 years ago near Djanet in the Tassili n ' Ajjer Mountains.

* " Dreamland ", a track from Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace's 2009 album Burn Burn, was inspired by Rockwell's paintings.

Rock paintings on cave walls in Africa and eastern Spain show people gathering honey from trees or rock crevices while bees fly around them — cave drawings in Spain, near Valencia.

The drawings would then be a representation of foreign technology, comparable to the Arnhem Land Aboriginal rock paintings depicting Westerners.

Archaeological evidence of settlement in the region includes inhabited rock shelters, rock paintings and engravings, burial places, camps and quarry sites, and stone tools and arrangements.

The breadth and complexity of the music combined with the series of William Neal paintings incorporated into the sleeve art helped to cement ELP's reputation as being on the forefront of progressive rock music.

There are a large number of Aboriginal rock paintings and carvings along the stock route.

Canadian rock group The Weakerthans released their album Reunion Tour in 2007 featuring two songs inspired by and named after Hopper paintings, " Sun in an Empty Room ", and " Night Windows ", and have also referenced him in songs such as " Hospital Vespers ".

It is popularly known as the Baiame Cave and is part of a series of rock shelters on an area of 80 hectares.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

These are particularly suitable for regions where water or rock is close to the surface.

The African rock python, a close second, is followed in turn by the reticulate python.

The husband is usually a well-educated professional, preoccupied with his job -- often an organization man whose motto for getting ahead is: `` Don't rock the boat ''.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

`` This is my rock ''.

Even though this is my rock, you can use it sometimes.

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".

The largest natural contributor to public radiation dose is radon, a naturally occurring, radioactive gas found in soil and rock.

This is a limestone belt with parallel hard rock ridges left standing by erosion to form mountains.

It is not a true abalone at all, but a muricid, or rock snail.

An abalone iron is used to pry the abalone from the rock before it can fully clamp down.

Thus throwing a rock at someone for the purpose of hitting him is a battery if the rock in fact strikes the person and is an assault if the rock misses.

In the formation of an ordinary agate, it is probable that waters containing silica in solution — derived, perhaps, from the decomposition of some of the silicates in the lava itself — percolated through the rock and deposited a siliceous coating on the interior of the vapour-vesicles.

Several vapour-vesicles may unite while the rock is still viscous, and thus form a large cavity which may become the home of an agate of exceptional size ; thus a Brazilian geode lined with amethyst and weighing 35 tons was exhibited at the Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1902.

The first deposit on the wall of a cavity, forming the " skin " of the agate, is generally a dark greenish mineral substance, like celadonite, delessite or " green earth ", which are rich in iron probably derived from the decomposition of the augite in the enclosing volcanic rock.

Andromeda is the daughter of an Aethiopian king in Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, the Boast of Cassiopeia, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster aroused by the queen's hubris.