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A PALEOLITHIC PALIMPSEST:
Scratches on a stone plaqueGonnersdorf, Germany. FromBahn and Vertut, 1997."A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book that has been scraped off and used again. The word "palimpsest" comes...
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POSSIBLE OLDEST PETROGLYPH IN SOUTH AMERICA DISCOVERED:
Little Horny Man petroglyph,Lapa do Santo, Brazil. from http://www.livescience.com/An online article by Charles Q. Choi, a contributor to LiveScience, explains the discovery of what might be the oldest...
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PALEOLITHIC HORSE DOMESTICATION?
Paleolithic Horse paintings from Chauvet cave.Photo from www.bradshawfoundation.com.There is an interesting school of thought today that maintains that cave paintings of horses, as well as horse...
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GLOBAL ROCK ART DATA BASE:
Global Rock Art Data Base home page.http://www.rockartdatabase.com/v2/.An interesting new development in rock art recording has come out of Australia with Robert Haubt's Global Rock Art Database...
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A COSMIC HOAX:
Station #16, Nine-Mile Canyon, UT.Photograph Peter Faris, 1993.Close-up of panel at Station#16, Nine-Mile Canyon, UT.Photograph Peter Faris, 1993.In this column I am presenting another egregious...
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A DEER TRAP IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO:
Caption: "Fig. 23. LA 12612. The deertrap at the rim of the mesa. Note theeasy access to the pit from MortandadCanyon at the right." (Steen 1977:29)The subject of this posting is not technically rock...
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LA 12609 - A PAINTED CAVATE KIVA, MORTANDAD RUIN, LOS ALAMOS COUNTY, NM:
Cavates at the Mortandad ruin, Los Alamos,NM. Photograph Peter Faris, Aug. 30, 2003.In 2003 we visited the Mortandad Ruin with our friends Bill and Jeanne Gibson. This is on the Pajarito Plateau at Los...
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A PAINTED DINOSAUR TRACK IN UTAH:
Pictograph showing painted dinosaurfootprint at Flag Point east of Kanab, Utah. Photograph By John Foster and AldenHamblin, Survey Notes, January, 2001,Utah Geological Survey.A pictograph (painted...
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EXTINCT ANIMALS IN ROCK ART - BISON ANTIQUUS:
Bison in South Park, Colorado.Photograph Peter Faris, 1990.In the paper cited below the authors (Agenbroad and Hesse 2004) argue that the belief that Paleo-hunters did not live on the Colorado Plateau...
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EXTINCT ANIMALS IN ROCK ART - MAMMOTHS:
On November 6, 2011, I reviewed a paper by Ekkehart Malotki and Henry D. Wallace about the discovery of a possible petroglyph of a mammoth along the San Juan River, near Bluff, Utah. (Malotki and...
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HISTORIC INSCRIPTIONS - TOM HORN, 1894:Tom Horn, 1894, inscription. South-centralMontana. Photograph by Timothy Urbaniak,used by permission.Periodically, I include historic inscriptions in RockArtBlog,...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS2015FROM RockArtBlogLittle Dominguez Canyon,Mesa County, Colorado© 2009, Peter Faris
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ARCHITECTURE IN ROCK ART: A PALEOLITHIC CAMPSITE DEPICTED ON STONE.
Engraving of a brush hut.Marcos Garcia-Diez, andManuel Vaquero, 2015,PLOS One.There have been many attempts to define shapes and symbols found in paleolithic paintings or engravings on the walls of...
View ArticleAN IMPOSED CHANGE IN RECEIVING ROCKARTBLOG:
As of January 11, 2016, Google will be restricting the ability of people to use Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut, and other non-Google accounts to connect and follow Blogger (and Blogspot) blogs. In their own...
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2015 CERTIFIABLE ROCK ART PREVARICATION (CRAP) AWARD - CONGRESSMAN ROB BISHOP:
Congressman Rob Bishop,of Utah's first CongressionalDistrict, Chairman of the House Natural Resources CommitteeCONGRESSIONAL HOUSE CHAIRMAN BISHOP CALLS NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS "BULL CRAP - NOT AN...
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HISTORIC INSCRIPTIONS - KID CURRY, 1901:
Another illustration from the PhDthesis of Timothy Urbaniak (2014)identifies "Kid Curry, 1901.""While inscriptions of "outlaws" have been documented further south into Wyoming, evidence of them roaming...
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HISTORIC INSCTIPTIONS - GENERAL CROOK, 1876:
"G. Crook, 1876", inscription.Photo:Urbaniak, 2014.I have mentioned this inscription in two previous postings (to view them click on the General Crook entry in the cloud index at the bottom of the...
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A SPOTTED CAT PETROGLYPH REVISITED:
Spotted cat petroglyph, Farrington Springs,Bent County, CO. Photo Peter Faris, 1990.On May 1, 2009, I posted a column titled "A Spotted Cat Petroglyph In Southeastern Colorado." In this I showed a...
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HISTORIC INSCRIPTIONS - GEORGE A. CUSTER, 1873:
George A. Custer, 1873.From Urbaniak, 2015.On December 27, 2009, I posted a column on ROCK ART OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN in which I presented a couple of rock art panels which have relations to the battle...
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YOU CAN HELP PROTECT ANCIENT EL PASO SITES:
Castner Range view.Rock art students and enthusiasts are asked to support an effort to create a new National Monument to protect Fort Bliss rock art sites. See the information below:"Significant...
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