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A FLATFISH PETROGLYPH AT NANAIMO PETROGLYPH PARK, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BRITISH...
Flatfish petroglyph, NanaimoPetroglyph Provincial Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Photo Peter Faris, 1992. On the eastern side of the island of Vancouver Island is Nanaimo Petroglyph...
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RUSSIAN PAINTING OF A CAMEL COULD BE 38,000-YEARS-OLD:
I honestly do not know why I find the story below so charming, but the picture of the camel is really good, it is unique, and represents a new subject added to the catalog of rock art imagery. Enjoy!...
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8,000-YEAR-OLD DOG PETROGLYPHS IN SAUDI ARABIA:
Rock art panel, Saudi Arabia.Jeddah blog, public domain.Hundreds of images of domesticated dogs have been found in rock art of the Arabian peninsula at the Shuwaymis and Jubbah sites in northwestern...
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A NOOTKAN FIRST-SALMON CEREMONIAL PETROGLYPH ON VANCOUVER ISLAND:
Salmon, Nainamo PetroglyphPark, Vancouver Island, BC.Photo: Peter Faris, 1992.At Nanaimo Petroglyph Park, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is a panel that has been identified as representing...
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BUFFALO SOLDIERS IN A ROCK ART PANEL IN UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH?
A few days ago I was visiting rock art sites on the internet when I came across a site I had never seen before. It was an RSS feed that included many of my postings from RockArtBlog. In scrolling...
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NATUFIAN LOVERS - THE FIRST PORTRAYAL OF SEX?
Ain Sakhri Lovers, calcite. Ca. 11,000 BCE.Photo: Public Domain.This charming little sculpture, known as the Ain Sakhri Lovers, is credited to the Natufian culture from the Near East. The "Natufian...
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THE DRAGONFLY AND THE CROSS OF CARAVACA:
Cross of Caravaca,photo: Wikimedia,public domain.Widow skimmer dragonflyclose-up, http://www.publicdomainpictures.netWhen the Spanish colonized in the American southwest they were accompanied by...
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TETZACUALCO, A MEXICAN CREATION GEOGLYPH:
Nahualac with Tetzacualco,i.pinimg.com, public domain.On the volcanic slopes below the Mexican volcano Iztaccihuatl, in a pond known as Nahualac, a geoglyph replicating the monster out of which the...
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SIR ISAAC NEWTON - ROCK ARTIST:
Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire,Great Britain, home ofSir Isaac Newton. Recent investigations have found evidence that the famous 17th century scientist, Sir Isaac Newton, created rock art, drawings...
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ANCIENT SAUDI GUEST ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE?
Two camels, The Camel Site,Saudi Arabia. Public domain,ancientorigins.com.In university art departments there is a common practice known as the artist-in-residence. This is usually a working artist...
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ORCA GEOGLYPH REDISCOVERED AND RESTORED IN PERU:
Orca geoglyph, Palpa, Peru.thehistoryblog.compublic domain. A wonderful geoglyph of what what has been identified as an orca has been found and restored in the Palpa region of southern Peru, near the...
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CAVE ART AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE?
Lascaux cave, France.www.scienceheather.com,Public domain.The old idea that rock art was produced in places influenced by the presence of echoes has resurfaced in a new manifestation. "For years,...
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WHO PAINTED THE MAMMOTHS?
Kapova.www.donsmaps.com.Public domain.Mammoth, Public domain.From the very beginning of cave art studies we have assumed that all cave paintings were made by Paleolithic Homo Sapiens. The splendid...
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THE EARLIEST HUMAN DATE IN NORTH AMERICA - SO FAR (PART ONE):
Yukon scene with close-up ofbone with cut marks inset.ancientorigins.com.Public Domain.I have long been interested in the possibility as to whether any rock art exists created in Beringia by the first...
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THE EARLIEST HUMAN DATE IN NORTH AMERICA SO FAR (PART TWO) - THE ROCK ART:Beringia.cs7.pikabu.ru,Public domain.In part one of this I presented the earliest human date - so far - in North America,...
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DRONES ARE PROVIDING A USEFUL TOOL FOR RECORDING ROCK ART AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL...
Newly discovered Paracasgeoglyphs, ancient-origins.com.Public domain.Exciting new discoveries in archaeological survey, and rock art recording, are being made possible by the development of video and...
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AT LEAST HE ADMITS IT, A VANDAL'S CONFESSION:
I ran across the following online and I confess I am somewhat ambivalent about it. Yes, what he did was vandalism, but it does not appear that he wantonly destroyed a rock art panel or other cultural...
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MEET THE ROCK ARTIST - PACOMIO CHACON:
Dragon trail, S. of Rangley,Rio Blanco county, CO.,Photograph Peter Faris,Sept. 1990.Back in 1990, south of Rangeley, Colorado, I ran into one of the most amazing and memorable petroglyphs I had (and...
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HISTORICAL INSCRIPTIONS AT THE TOMB OF A BIBLICAL PROPHET:
Esarhaddon inscription, Tomb ofJonah, Nineveh, Iraq. PhotographLive Science, Public Domain.Explorations on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, in the ruins of The Tomb of Jonah, an ancient shrine that was...
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THE EARLIEST DATES IN COLORADO, EAGLE ROCK SHELTER:
Eagle Rock Shelter, 5DT813,Delta County, Colorado.Photograph cpr.org,Public Domain.The oldest dates recovered so far in Colorado have come from an excavation at Eagle Rock Shelter (5DT813) in Delta...
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