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TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION: While I really appreciate your comments (generally) on RockArtBlog, I must remind you that they come to me on a "no-reply" e-mail communication from Blogger. If you wish an...
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MEET THE ROCK ARTIST - BIRD RATTLE AT WRITING-ON-STONE:
Bird Rattle's petroglyph record of his 1924visit to Writing-On-Stone. PhotographPeter Faris, 25 June 2016.It is a verity in our branch of Art History study that we rarely get to know who created the...
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BOOK REVIEW - HORSE RAIDERS IN THE MISSOURI BREAKS:
It wasn't done by the butler in the library . . . . . it was done in the Missouri Breaks, by the Blackfoot and the Crow. Cover: Horse Raiders in the MissouriBreaks, Keyser and Minick, 2018,Oregon...
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ROCK ART RECORDING - LARRY LOENDORF:
5LA5598, Boulder Site, PinyonCanyon, Photo US Army, Fort Carson.Petroglyphs on boulders at 5LA5598, Boulder Site, Pinyon Canyon, Photo from Larry Loendorf.Back in the 1980s, Dr....
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A 5,000-YEAR-OLD FAMILY PORTRAIT IN EGYPT:
5,000-year-old Egyptian "NativityScene", www.seeker.comItalian rock art researchers have announced the discovery of what they are calling "the oldest nativity scene ever found." Because of the...
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OF COURSE THEY ARE TOOL SHARPENING GROOVES - BUT WHAT ELSE MIGHT THEY BE?
Tool-sharpening grooves,Picture Canyon, Baca County, CO.Photo Peter Faris, 21 Sept., 1986.In southeastern Colorado there are large numbers of sites that have rows of lines or grooves pecked or ground...
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A VERY EARLY ABECEDARY:
Inscription on a limestoneostracon. Tomb of Sennifer,Egypt. Photo timesofisrael.com.Public domain.The oldest known inscription in an early version of our alphabet (well almost) is an ostracon, an...
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THE CORNUCOPIA – AN ANCIENT TRADITION:
Venus of Laussel, France.25,000 BP. Photo Wikipedia,Public Domain.The cornucopia (from Latin cornu copiae) or Horn of Plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped...
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ROCK ART RECORDING - DR. CAROL PATTERSON:
5DT813, Panel 1, composite of 4tracings, Photo and drawing fromCarol Patterson.I would suppose that most of us have been involved to some extent with recording rock art. If so, you have to be aware...
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ANOTHER SUPPOSED NORTH AMERICAN RUNE STONE:
Noman's Land Island RuneStone, Massachusetts.Every so often, here in North America, we run into an inscription on a stone that is claimed to be done in authentic Viking runes and proves that they were...
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THE PALEOLITHIC UNICORN - FOUND AT LAST?
Lacaux unicorn,essay-eh.blogspot.com,Public domain.The so-called unicornpainting in Lascaux cave has long puzzled researchers. The model for a one-horned animal has been sought in the fossil record....
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ARE LASCAUX CAVE PAINTINGS ENCODED PALEOLITHIC STAR CHARTS?
Lascaux Cave, France, showing thesupposed star chart panel of Taurusthe Bull, www.twiggietruth.com,Public Domain. Another shaky theory has come to my attention recently. It is a...
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ANOTHER SUPPOSED STAR MAP PAINTED IN LASCAUX CAVE, FRANCE - THE SUMMER TRIANGLE:
Dying Man panel, Lascaux Cave,France. Public Domain.Another supposed star map painted in Lascaux Cave, France, is found at the bottom of the shaft in Lascaux Cave. It is the panel known as the "Dying...
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A POSSIBLE RIO GRANDE GORGE METEOR PETROGLYPH:
Petroglyph panel, on the Trail toManby Hot Springs, Rio GrandeGorge, outside of Taos, New Mexico.Photograph Jerry Hansen.Arrow pointing out possiblemeteor symbol.I have, on a number of past occasions,...
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OLDEST PETROGLYPHS SO FAR?
100,000-year-old engravedocher, Blombos Cave, SouthAfrica. sciencemag.org.Public domain.What might indeed be the oldest date for a petroglyph so far has been found on a block of ocher dated to...
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THE DRINKING REINDEER OF LES COMBARELLES:
View of Drinking Reindeer in Les Combarelles,donsmaps.com, public domain.I LOVE this one. Carved into the grotto of Les Combarelles, in Les Eyzies de Tayac, Dordogne, France. It was officially...
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PALEOLITHIC FISHING - THE LA PILETA HALIBUT:
Halibut, La Pileta Cave, Spain.The question of the meaning of images in rock art has been perennially discussed. It usually reflects one of two positions; animals in rock art represent spiritual...
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WASGO/GONAKADET - SEA WOLVES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST:
Haida Wasgo, from a tattoo image.Among the pantheon of mythical and legendary animals that populated the belief systems of the tribes of the Pacific Northwest was the Sea Wolf. On July 22, 2012, I...
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PUBLIC ACCESS/PUBLIC SERVANTS/RESPONSIVENESS/AND RESPONSIBILITY - AN EDITORIAL:On September 24, 2018, I had the opportunity to make a long postponed, but highly anticipated, visit to Canyon's of the...
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SAN LUIS VALLEY LITHOPHONES:
All 22 San Luis Valleylithophones set up for aplaying demonstration.This might seem like a stretch for RockArtBlog, but music is certainly an art form. Indeed, in the form of vocalizing, singing and...
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