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APRIL 1, 2017: ARE SHIEKERS FROM THE MOVIE TREMORS REAL?
Shrieker petroglyphs, La Cieneguilla,southwest of airport, Santa Fe, NM.Photograph by Patricia Price, Dec. 1991.The series of Tremors movies was memorable for a number of reasons; fun and frightening,...
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GEOGLYPHS OF KAZAKHSTAN:
Swastika geoglyph. http://www.ancient-origins.net. Public domain.An article in Live Science, written by Owen Jarus, and dated September 23, 2014, detailed the recording of more than fifty geoglyphs in...
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A RUSSIAN GEOGLYPH:
Russian elk geoglyph.LiveScience.com, public domain.Back in 2012, Owen Jarus wrote a column for LiveScience.com, about a large geoglyph discovered in Russia that has been identified as a probable elk...
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AN EQUINOX MARKER IN WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT:
Wupatki equinox marker, panel #50,March 21, 2015, 12:00 PM,Photo: David Purcell/NPS.Used by permission. A petroglyph panel first recorded in 1931 by Harold Colton has been recently confirmed...
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MYTHOLOGY IN ROCK ART - CONTINUED:
On December 3, 2016, I posted a column about an article in the December 2016 issue of Scientific American magazine. Written by Julien d'Huy, and titled The Evolution of Myths, this article traced back...
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CUMULATIVE VANDALISM, THE IMPORTANCE OF ROCK ART RECORDING - REVISITED:
Sego Canyon, Utah. Panel withpossible vandalism.https://www.eskimo.com~noir/southwest/rock/art/thomp6.jpg.On June 24, 2016, I posted a column titled Cumulative Vandalism - The Importance of Rock Art...
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INCOMPLETE HAND PRINTS MAY RECORD TALLIES OR COUNTS:
Count or tally of four? HandPrint with missing little finger.Maltravieso Cave, Spain.Public Domain.For quite some time there has been discussion on the question of handprints in Palaeolithic cave art...
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ROCK ART STUDIES - AROUND THE EDGES (WARNING: THIS CONTAINS ACTUAL IDEAS, AND...
Anubis Cave, NW Oklahoma,On spring equinox,March 20, 2015.From the beginning, the study of North American rock art has attracted interest from unorthodox places. Indeed, when I started studying rock...
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HANDPRINTS MAY RECORD TALLIES OR COUNTS - CONTINUED:
Hand stencil, Maltravieso Cave,Caceres, Spain, little fingerdeliberately painted out,Paleolithic. Public Domain.Handprints are a common image in rock art from time immemorial. One interesting...
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PALEOLITHIC CAVE PAINTING - A PRECURSOR TO WRITING?La Pasiega inscription, Spain.http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/originsThe perennial question of the origin(s) of writing has been long debated...
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A PALEOLITHIC BUFFALO WOMAN?
Chauvet cave,www.pinterest.com,public domain.On December 3, 2016, I posted a column about an article in the December 2016 issue of Scientific American magazine. Written by Julien d'Huy, and titled The...
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MORE ON BUFFALO/LION WOMAN:
Chauvet Buffalo Woman,pinterest.com,public domain.Last week I wrote about the question of the time depth of the Pied Piper myth, the Paleolithic origins of the Polyphemus myth according to Julien...
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ANIMALS IN ROCK ART - A PAINTED MONGOOSE IN AN EGYPTIAN TOMB:
Beni Hassan, Egypt.Public domain. I have, on occasion, presented material in RockArtBlog that came from Egyptian tombs and other sources not generally considered as rock art. My reason for this is that...
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NIAUX CAVERN - AN EARLY VISITOR'S GRAFFITI:
Bison, Niaux, Black Salon,Wikipedia. Public domain.The urge to leave graffiti on a rock art site is not just a modern phenomenon. According to the book The Cave and the Cathedralby Amir Aczel, a...
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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES - A BOOK REVIEW:
Pushing The Boundaries,Front CoverThis volume is another rock art publication of the Oregon Archaeological Society (OAS), their 24th book, a remarkable contribution for such a group. This particular...
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NEW DISCOVERIES IN AZILIAN CULTURE ROCK ART:
Azilian painted pebble,Wikipedia. Public Domain.It has long been believed that the great Ice Age art of Europe disappeared with the decline of the Magdalenian culture about 12,000 BCE. The following...
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EARLY VISITORS TO CAVE ART SITES - ROUFFIGNAC:
Bust of Francois de Belleforest,Wikipedia. Public domain.On July 1, 2017, I published an article that I called NIAUX CAVERN - AN EARLY VISITOR'S GRAFFITI, in which I wrote about Ruben de la Vialle who...
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FIRST PALEOLITHIC ROCK ART IN GERMANY: ENGRAVINGS ON HUNSRUCK SLATE.
Paleolithic slate engravings,Hunsruck, Germany.Public domain.A recent paper on thefreelibrary.comreported the discovery of the first large-scale paleolithic art in Germany. Originally discovered in...
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WHY I AM SKEPTICAL ABOUT A RUSSIAN CIRCLE OF HOLES BEING AN ANCIENT SUNDIAL:
Russian stone circle purported tobe a sundial/moondial.A LiveScience article by Stephanie Pappas, dated October 15, 2014, announced the discovery of a combination Sundial/Moondial carved into a rock...
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IMAGES OF FOOTWEAR IN ROCK ART - FREMONT MOCCASINS:
Fremont moccasin print petroglyphs,Dinosaur Nat. Mon. Grand County, UT.Photo: Peter Faris, June 1986.A subject of interest in rock art is the portrayal of footwear. What do these images mean, what is...
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