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ARE THESE UTE WOODEN MAPS? - OR APOPHENIA - PAREIDOLIA - MIMETOLITHS - MANUPORTS
Supposed Ute map,engraved in wood,with explanation.Supposed Ute map,left side,with explanationSupposed Ute map,right side,with explanation.I have been writing recently on the phenomenon known as...
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AZILIAN PAINTED PEBBLES:
Wikipedia,Public Domain.Following the heights (at least the artistic heights) of the Magdalenian culture in Western Europe was the period known as Azilian "in the Franco-Cantabrian region of northern...
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NEW DISCOVERIES IN AZILIAN ART:
Rocher de l'Impe'ratrice,Archaeology Magazine,March/April 2019, p. 44.As I wrote in RockArtBlog last week art historians have long considered the Azilian (ca. 14,000 BP) descendants of the great...
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PROOF OF THUNDERBIRDS FOUND IN AMAZONIAN JUNGLE:
Dead humpback whale inBrazilian Amazon jungle.Photo ctvnews.ca,Public Domain.Native tribes of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America have extensive legends of Thunderbird preying on whales....
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UKRAINIAN CARVED STONE EFFIGY HEADS:
Kamyana Mohyla site,excavation at arrow centerleft, mound on right.Excavations at an open-air site in Ukraine called Kamyana Mohyla have revealed a sequence 4.2m deep dating from the European...
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ANIMATION IN PALEOLITHIC CAVE PAINTING - THE FLICKER EFFECT:
8-legged bison, (see the blackand white diagram below),Chauvet cave, France.Photo electrummagazine.com,Public Domain.One aspect of cave art that has garnered considerable speculation is the existence...
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PREHISTORIC ANIMATION - PALEOLITHIC THAUMATROPES?
Illustration of bird and cagethaumatrope. Public Domain.Even if we do not remember, or ever knew, what they are called, we all remember thaumatropes from our childhood as the classic illustration of...
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FERTILITY, WEALTH, OR ANIMAL TRACKS?
Vulvar representation, La Ferrasie,France. Photo: Public Domain.On October 14, 2017, I posted a column titled Fertility or Wealth? in which I pointed out that some variations of the symbols...
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ANCIENT ROCK ART OF INDIA - THE WORLD'S EARLIEST?
Cupule and groove, Bhimbetka, India.Internet, Public Domain.Very early human occupation of the Indian sub-continent has been known for some time, and the Harappan civilization of the Indus River...
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ORIGINS OF THE OUTLINED CROSS VENUS SYMBOL:
Four-armed outlined cross Venussymbol. Redrocks, AZ.Photo Paul and Joy Foster.The 4-armed symbol representing the planet Venus seems to have been ubiquitous prehistorically among cultures in Mexico and...
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WORLD CLASS ROCK ART IN KONKAN, INDIA:
Cow, Garge, Kulkarni, Apte, and Risbud,2018, Photo used by permission.On 4 May, 2019, in a posting titled "ANCIENT ROCK ART OF INDIA - THE WORLD'S EARLIEST?" I wrote "very early human occupation of the...
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BUBBA GLYPHS - A WHOLE NEW CATEGORY:
Christensen, Dickey, and Freers, Rock Art of the Grand Canyon Region,2013, Sunbelt Publications. p.222.There is a term that has been coined to describe the markings left on rock art sites by the morons...
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AN ALABAMA CAVE CONTAINING INSCRIPTIONS WRITTEN IN CHEROKEE:
Cherokee inscription,Manitou Cave, Alabama.Internet, Public Domain.We now know that writing was invented numerous times in human history, but very seldom do we get to know exactly who invented a...
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THE ROC-AUX-SORCIERS FRIEZE:
A section of the carved frieze,Roc-aux-Sorciers, France.Although we often think of the cave paintings in Europe as a collection of individual images, there are instances of larger overall compositions....
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ANOTHER CLAIMED VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN ROCK ART:
Cakallar volcano from SE Turkey. Livescience.com.Credit Erdal Gumus.I have often expressed my conviction that some rock art would have been made to record remarkable events in the lives of the people,...
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FIRST BALKAN PALEOLITHIC CAVE ART DISCOVERY:
Romualdova cave, Croatia.Internet.As time goes by we are learning more and more about the capabilities of our ancestors. Some time back we were told that only the very early Europeans had achieved...
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On June 27 I received an anonymous comment concerning my June 21, 2014 posting DINOSAURS IN ROCK ART? - THE HAVASUPAI CANYON HADROSAUR. In it I discuss the discoverer's belief that he had found the...
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METEORS, PHOSPHENES, OR COSMIC RAYS:
Meteor exploding, Shropshire,England. Photo Nick Jackson.I am an avid sky-watcher. I have had a life-long fascination with clouds, weather, and the phenomena of the night sky such as meteors and...
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ROCK ART AND ACOUSTICS: INTENTIONAL, ACCIDENTAL, OR IRRELEVANT? - PART 1
Two Mammoths, Rouffignac,France. Marking a spot of increasedresonance according toReznikoff (2002:48).Photo: bradshawfoundation.com.There is a great deal of interest currently in archaeoacoustics, the...
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ROCK ART AND ACOUSTICS: INTENTIONAL, ACCIDENTAL, OR IRRELEVANT - PART 2?
Lithophones, Organ and Chimes,Caverns of Luray, VA,1906 postcard.Last week I reported on Iegor Reznikoff's researches into the subject of acoustics of rock art sites. This week I am adding conclusions...
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