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PROFESSIONAL BIAS IN ROCK ART STUDIES:
Warrior petroglyph, Plains Apachean, Picture Canyon,Comanche Grasslands, Baca County, Colorado.Photo: Peter Faris, 1986.As the archaeologist for Comanche Grasslands in southeastern Colorado stated at a...
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WAIKOLOA PETROGLYPH PRESERVE, PUAKO, HAWAII, SEPTEMBER 2012:
A family lineage? Waikoloa Petroglyph Preserve,Puako, Hawaii. Photo: Ellen Belef, September 2012. A family lineage? Waikoloa Petroglyph Preserve,Puako, Hawaii. Photo: Ellen Belef, September...
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HAWAII, ANOTHER PIKO STONE:
Piko stone, Pu'uloa petroglyphs, Volcanoes NationalPark, Hawaii. Photograph Ellen Belef, March, 2007.On January 26, 2011, I posted a column about a piko stone at the Kukaniloko Birthing Stones site, at...
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EARLY KACHINAS IN ROCK ART?
#1 - Petroglyphs, North of Soccorro, Richard Coleman, 2012#2 - Mystery masks, North of Soccorro, Richard Coleman, 2012.One of the real fascinations of rock art in the American southwest is to try to...
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CHIPPED ROCK EDGES AT A WASHINGTON STATE VISION QUEST SITE:
Vision quest site and petroglyphs, Horsethief Lake StatePark, Washington. Photo: Peter Faris, 2000. Notice thechipped edge of the rock face with the pictographs.In the summer of 2000 I had the good...
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OUTLINED PETROGLYPHS, WAIKOLOA PETROGLYPH PRESERV E, PUAKO, HAWAII:
Petroglyph figure outlined with rocks. Waikoloa Petroglyph Preserve, Puako, Hawaii. Photo Ellen Belef, Sept. 2012.Another petroglyph figure outlined with rocks. Waikoloa Petroglyph Preserve, Puako,...
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ROMANIAN CAVE ART:
Charcoal rhinoceros, Coliboaia cave, Romania.From: Zorich, Zach, Drawing Paleolithic Romania,page 14, from Archaeology Magazine, January/February 2012.The January/February 2012 issue of Archaeology...
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ROCK ART VANDALISM - $1,000 REWARD:
This notice has been circulating recently, concerning vandalism to a rock art panel. Since time may be a factor in resolving this crime I am posting it immediately. If any of you in the area of Bishop,...
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PIKO STONES, OR GAME BOARDS?
PuuLoa, Hawaii, Photograph Joe Belef, 2007. PuuLoa, Hawaii, Photograph Joe Belef, 2007.On November 17, 2012, I put up a posting about Hawaiian Piko stones. These are stones with holes pecked into them...
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GAME BOARDS, CONTINUED:
Tlacuachero game board. From Games People Play, Barbara Voorhies,p. 48, Archaeology Magazine, May-June 2012.An article in the May/June 2012 issue of Archaeology magazine illustrated another possible...
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MAYAN ROCK ART IN GEORGIA?
Forsythe petroglyph boulder, Georgia.http://ts1.mm. bing.netthid=H.4516085962048560&pid=15.1Forsythe petroglyph boulder, Georgia....
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On January 4, 2013, I posted Mayan Rock Art In Georgia? which was a review of a new television series on History2 channel. This television series aired on 28 December, 2012, on History2 channel titled...
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HAWAIIAN ROCK ART - KONANE GAME BOARDS:
Konane game board. Papamu, Big Island, Hawaii.Photograph: Douglas Beauchamp, 2009.On Dec. 1, 2010, I had posted a column about a rock art site on the Hawaiian island of Oahu that has a grouping of pits...
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METEORITES:
Willamette Meteorite, From Let's Investigate Meteorites, by Madelyn Carlisle.A couple of months ago while driving home after dark I was lucky enough to observe the breakup and burning of a good sized...
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GAME BOARDS IN ROCK ART - PATOLLI:
Any student of rock art would happily classify a design marked on a slab of rock that they discovered somewhere out in the wilderness as rock art. Most of us would even classify markings that we know...
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THE OLDEST ART IN EUROPE?
In the January – February, 2013, issue of Archaeology magazine, a fascinating article entitled Structural Integrity, by Nikhil Swaminathan, discusses domestic spatial utilization by Paleolithic people...
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A POSSIBLE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN ROCK ART?
Total solar eclipse, 1999. Wikipedia.A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. This is a spectacular sight, even to our modern society which understands the...
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METEORITES IN ROCK ART - CONTINUED?
On January 18, 2013, I posed the question “can we identify meteorites or meteorite falls in rock art?” Although I have been looking for some time I have not, as yet, been able to identify any image...
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ANOTHER POSSIBLE SOLAR ECLIPSE SYMBOL IN ROCK ART?
On February 9, I posted a column speculating on the existence of total solar eclipses in rock art. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly in front of the Sun. This is a spectacular...
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THE GRAND TRAVERSE BAY, MICHIGAN, PROBOSCIDIAN:
On February 23, 2013, we attended the excellent exhibit MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS: TITANS OF THE ICE AGE, at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS). This is a traveling exhibit that originated at...
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