A REPLY TO A COMMENT BY VDINETS:
vdinets has left a new comment on my post "A RIDICULOUS CLAIM - THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS ARE ORIENTED TO THE STARS IN ORION’S BELT: November 10, 2018.Now this is a great comment, whoever you are, and one...
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FLUTE PLAYER, HEALER, OR PIPE SMOKER?
Kneeling Kokopelli, Kelley Place,Mancos Canyon, Montezuma County, CO.Photograph Peter Faris, May 1983.Kokopelli, near Talus House,Bandelier National Monument,Los Alamos County, New Mexico.Photograph...
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The former EDITORIALS page on RockArtBlog is changing to COMMENTS AND EDITORIALS. It is my intention to use it for responses to comments that I receive anonymously but are worth replying to - either...
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MORE AZILIAN ENGRAVINGS:
Azilian carved stone plaque,Angouleme, France.Internet photo.On July 15, 2017, I posted a column titled NEW DISCOVERIES IN AZILIAN CULTURE ROCK ART, about the discovery of pictures engraved on stone...
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AVIAN SUBJECTS IDENTIFIED IN NAZCA GEOGLYPHS: PART ONE – THE HUMMINGBIRD.
Hummingbird geoglyph, Nazca, Peru.Photo Masaki Eda, used withpermission.A favorite pastime of rock art researchers has long been trying to identify animal or plant images portrayed in rock art as to...
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AVIAN SUBJECTS IDENTIFIED IN NAZCA GEOGLYPHS: PART TWO – THE OTHERS!
Last week I began a two-report on a recent paper from the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports titled“Identifying the Bird Figures of the Nasca Pampas: An Ornithological Perspective” by Masaki...
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ON ENDLESS MOTION - DEPICTION OF MOVEMENT IN UPPER COA VALLEY ROCK ART,...
Symmetrical animation, implied motion - runninghorses.Lascaux cave, France.Image from the Internet,Public domain.Back in April of this year, I wrote two columns about animation effects in rock art, on...
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CLAVIFORM SYMBOLS:
Claviforms, Chauvet Cave, France.Internet, Public Domain.Horizontal claviforms, AltamiraCave, Spain. ca. 35,600 BP. Bruno, Cave Art, fig. 144, p. 166.One of the common symbols in Paleolithic European...
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HERE THEY COME AGAIN: Decoding European Palaeolithic Art: Extremely Ancient...
Pillar 43 at Gobekli Tepe, Turkey.Photo from the Internet,Public domain.On December 1, 2018, I posted a column titled Astronomy in Rock Art – Decoding Gobekli Tepe?about wild speculation that carvings...
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BOOK REVIEW - VISIONS FOR LIFE AND DEATH: PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA...
VISIONS FOR LIFE AND DEATH: PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LOWER COLUMBIA RIVER, Keyser, James D., David A. Kaiser, and David L. Minick.Front cover.I have received another volume of rock art in the series...
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WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY? – NEOLITHIC CARVED STONE BALLS:
Neolithic stone balls,Ashmolean Museum,Internet, Public Domain.Carved Stone Ball fromthe British Museum,Wikipedia,Public Domain.Here is one of my favorite conundrums involving rock art. These Neolithic...
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ROCK ART AND MAGNETISM:
The Hogback, Las AnimasCounty, Colorado.Photograph Peter Faris, 1997.Lightning strike on the Hogback,Las Animas County, Colorado.Photograph Peter Faris, 1997.Rock art on the Hogback,Las Animas County,...
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CHARLES DARWIN'S BEAR - REVISITED:
"Don't Deface the Bear", PurgatoireRiver Canyon, Colorado. PhotographPeter Faris, June 1991.In 1874, the great Charles Darwin received a letter with an accompanying photograph from a G. J. Anderson....
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IS THIS CHARLES DARWIN'S BEAR PICTOGRAPH?
- - Continued from last week - -Found among Charles Darwin’s personal correspondence is this letter from Ft. Lyon, in southeastern Colorado. (letter no. 9466) The photograph mentioned in the letter has...
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SIGN AND GESTURE IN ROCK ART - PART 1: IMPLIED.
There are many rock art enthusiasts who try to read written messages in the shapes and relationships of the elements of a pictograph or petroglyph. I have generally been a skeptic on this, I see no...
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CASA MALPAIS SERPENT EFFIGY - A LARGE STONE SCULPTURE IN ARIZONA:
An old post card imageof the Springervillestone serpent.Public domain.Especially fascinating in the North American Native arts is a shortage of large scale stone sculptures when compared to other...
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INCORPORATION IN ROCK ART - SHAPE AND VOLUME:
Drinking reindeer, Les Combarelles,France, www.donsmaps.com,Public domain.There is a phrase you often see in rock art papers nowadays - "incorporation." Basically, it refers to using a natural feature...
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MUSIC IN ROCK ART - DONG SON DRUMS IN INDONESIA:
Figure playing a Dong Son Drum,Kisar, Indonesia.Photograph from Live Science.I have written previously about the topic of music as it relates to rock art. Of course, both music and visual art share...
View ArticleROCK ART - ART HISTORY VS. ARCHAEOLOGY (WHO SHOULD STUDY IT?):
I have long maintained that archaeologists are wrong in arguing that they alone should study rock art. After I had been involved in the field of rock art studies for about 20 years a recently graduated...
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THE ANCESTRAL PUEBLOAN THREE MOUNTAIN THEME REVISITED:
Stone slab with three mountains,Plate XLVI, 22nd Annual Report ofthe Bureau of American Ethnologyto the Secretary of the SmithsonianInstitution. J. W. Fewkes, 1904.I have previously posted two columns...
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