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BIRDS IN ROCK ART - GREAT BLUE HERON:
Fremont pictograph, great blue heron, Rabbit Valley, CO.Photograph: Peter Faris, 1981.Close-up of great blue heron pictograph, RabbitValley, CO. Photograph: Peter Faris, 1981.The painted bird in this...
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BIRDS IN ROCK ART - MACAWS/PARROTS REVISITED:
Macaws, Square Tower Canyon,Hovenweep Nat. Mon., San Juancounty, UT. Photograph:Peter Faris, 28 May 1988.A fascinating subject to study in rock art of the American Southwest, an arid region with much...
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A CLAIMED VOLCANIC ERUPTION PICTURED IN ROCK ART?
Megaloceruos panel, Chauvet-Pontd'Arc, From PLOS, January 8, 2016.One area in which I have been deeply interested for quite some time involves trying to figure out ancient people's understanding of the...
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BIRD-HEADED FIGURES REVISITED:
Bird-Headed Figure. Photograph:John and Daphne Rudolph. This illustration is a new example of an Ancestral Puebloan bird-headed figure that I was given recently. The photograph was taken by John and...
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MAPS IN ROCK ART - REVISITED:
"Map Rock", Turkey Creek, FortCarson, Colorado. Photograph:Peter Faris, July 2005.On April 18, 2009, I posted a column titled "ARE THERE MAPS IN NATIVE AMERICAN ROCK ART?" In this column I presented a...
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BOOK REVIEW: UNDESTANDING MEANING AND PURPOSE OF ROCK ART:
UNDESTANDING MEANING AND PURPOSE OF ROCK ART, by D. Russel Micnhimer, 2012, Pendulum Press.Cover Photo.I recently received a copy of a very interesting book, Understanding Meaning And Purpose Of Rock...
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STYLISTIC EVOLUTION - FROM REALISM TO ABSTRACTION IN FREMONT ANTHROPOMORPHS -...
Figure 1. 3-Kings Panel, ClassicVernal Fremont Style, McConkeyRanch, Utah. Photograph Peter Faris,September 1994.The subject of Style in rock art has perhaps engendered more arguments than any other...
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ROCK ART PROOF THAT THE CREATURES IN THE TREMORS MOVIES WERE REAL?
La Cieneguilla, Southwest of airport,Santa Fe, NM. Photograph PatriciaPrice, December 1991.La Cieneguilla, Southwest of airport,Santa Fe, NM. Photograph PatriciaPrice, December 1991.The series of...
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STYLISTIC EVOLUTION - FROM REALISM TO ABSTRACTION IN FREMONT ANTHROPOMORPHS -...
FIGURE 3, 3-Princesses, Cub Creek, Dinosaur Nat. Mon., Uintah County, UT.Photograph Peter Faris, September 1989.In my first column on this site, (March 26, 2015) I suggested that the next stage in this...
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CUB CREEK - ORIGINALITY, OR WHIMSY, OR BOTH:
Post-classic Vernal Abstract figures, CubCreek, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah.Photograph Peter Faris, June 1984. In the collection of Cub Creek anthropomorphic figures from the Uintah Fremont people...
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BOOK REVIEW: ANCIENT RUINS AND ROCK ART OF THE SOUTHWEST, BY DAVID GRANT NOBLE.
Cover, Ancient Ruins and Rock Art ofthe Southwest: An ArchaeologicalGuide, 4th Edition. David Grant Noble.NOTE: This book review was previously published in Southwestern Lore: Journal of Colorado...
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ANCIENT MAP PRESERVED IN A MURAL OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AT CATALHOYUK:
Catalhoyuk map and volcano wallmural, from the Internet.As readers of RockArtBlog know, I sometimes expand the subject of my writings to ancient wall murals and/or carvings. While perhaps not strictly...
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GEOLOGY IN ROCK ART - A VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT PETROGLYPH POINT, MESA VERDE? -...
Petroglyph Point panel, MesaVerde, CO. Photograph PeterFaris, 29 May 1988.As a return visit to the subject of volcanoes in rock art, I bring you another one of the fanciful creations by William Eaton...
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PETROGLYPHS - DIRECT VS. INDIRECT PERCUSSION REVISITED:
Hammerstone below petroglyphpanel, Wild Horse Draw, CanyonPintado, CO. Photograph Peter Faris.On January 17, 2010, I posted a column on http://rockartblog.blogspot.com, Petroglyphs - Direct Vs....
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ROCK ART, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE:
Disclaimer: Except for the direct quotes following, the content of this posting is completely my speculation, and neither Dietrich Stout or Scientific American can be held responsible for any mistakes...
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SEEKING BEAR, A BOOK REVIEW:
Cover.I want to introduce you to another wonderful book by Jim Keyser and George Poetschat, Seeking Bear: The Petroglyphs of Lucerne Valley, Wyoming, 236 pages. Published in 2015 by the Oregon...
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SOME BEAR PAW PRINTS IN ROCK ART:
Bear paw prints, found in the 1stcanyon north of DominguezCanyon, Mesa County, Colordo.Photograph Peter Faris, June 1980.8-toed bear paw print,Dominguez Canyon, MesaCounty, Colorado. PhotographPeter...
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A NEW DISCOVERY OF SPANISH CAVE ART HAS BEEN REPORTED:
Site archaeologist Diego Garate looking at cave paintings representing horses in the Axturra cave. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images.A story by Ciaran Giles, writing for Associated Press in Madrid, Spain,...
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THE LOW-DOWN ON HIGHEST ALTITUDE ROCK ART CLAIMS:
Pictograph at Abri Faravel,southern France, 7,000' in elevation.www.livescience.comAn article published online at Live Science, by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science contributor, and titled...
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CUMULATIVE VANDALISM - THE IMPORTANCE OF ROCK ART RECORDING:
Ute panel, Sego Canyon,Utah. Photograph: PeterFaris, August, 1993.Left side of Ute panel, Sego Canyon, Utah. Photograph: Peter Faris, August, 1993.We all have seen examples of...
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