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WAS ROCK ART CREATED BY AUTISTIC ARTISTS?
Chauvet lions, Internet image, Public Domain.Overlapping images and attention to precise detail.A relatively new thread of discussion about the creation of the magnificent cave art of Europe (and early...
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SIGN AND GESTURE IN ROCK ART - PART 2: THE CREATIVE PROCESS:
A horse raid,Comanche rock art, La VistaVerde site, New Mexico. Photoused with permission ofSeverin Fowles.One final aspect of the subject of motion in rock art involves the motions that created the...
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2018 C.R.A.P. AWARD - SPACE ALIENS IN ROCK ART: This was last year's award,...
Petroglyphs, Swelter Shelter,Dinosaur National Monument,Utah, Photograph Peter Faris,1984.I am going to break with my usual practice this year, and instead of giving the 2018 C.R.A.P. (Certifiable Rock...
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CHRISTMAS 2019
WE ARE HOOKING UP THETEAM TOWISH YOU A VERYMERRYCHRISTMAS 2019 FROM RockArtBlog Hooking up the team! Have a very Merry Christmas, A Happy New Year's Eve, and all the best in 2020.Spirit Mountain,...
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2019 C.R.A.P. AWARD - THE HOHOKAM WERE MASONIC PHOENICIAN HEBREWS:
Hohokam rock art.Internet, Public domain.It is time again for the RockArtBlog coveted annual C. R. A. P. (Certifiable Rock Art Prevarication) award, and boy, do I have a really deserving recipient this...
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BIGHORN SHEEP HEADDRESSES AND HORNED ANTHROPOMORPHS, PART 1 - ARCHAIC PEOPLES:
Bighorn Sheep, Archaic petroglyph,Nine-Mile Canyon, Utah.Photo Paul and Joy Foster, from Colo. Rock Art Archives.(Note - the figure on the lefthas his head posed in a rarefrontal position.)Here in the...
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BIGHORN SHEEP HEADDRESSES AND HORNED ANTHROPOMORPHS - PART 2: FREMONT AND LATER.
Bighorn Sheep Headdresses, Continued:Fremont horned figures, Utah.Photo Sherman Spear.Last week I presented Part 1 of this look at Bighorn Sheep Headdresses and Horned Anthropomorphs in rock art of...
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ANIMALS IN ROCK ART: PALEOLITHIC SPOTTED HORSES - REAL OR FANCIFUL?
Spotted horses, Pech-MerleCave, France. Internet photo - Public domain.Students of rock art have learned to always be on the lookout for representations of rare or extinct animals as a guide...
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BOOK REVIEW: “Standing on the Walls of Time”
Cover, Standing on the Walls of Time:Ancient Art of Utah's Cliffs and Canyons,by Kevin T. Jones.I have never understood why so many self-appointed “experts” in rock art make such a big deal about "it...
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AUROCHS HORNS IN CAVE ART - A LEARNING EXPERIENCE:
Aurochs, Albarracín, Teruel, Spain.Internet photo - Public Domain.Aurochs, Internet Photo.Public Domain.The marvelous cave paintings of Europe represent many of the earliest examples of art that we...
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THE UNCANNY VALLEY AND PALEOLITHIC ROCK ART (with a thank you nod to Adrienne...
Chauvet Cave, France. Internetphoto - Public domain.Close-up of upper Rhinos.Chauvet Cave, France. Internetphoto - Public domain.In the past I have commented on the appearance of motion I expect...
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A CASE OF HYPERVOCABULITIS - USING BIG WORDS TO SOUND IMPRESSIVE:I have recently finished reading a book on the misappropriation of rock art imagery by our Anglo culture. In reading it I find the...
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NEW NAZCA GEOGLYPHS DISCOVERED:
New geoglyph discoverednear Nazca,Credit Yamagata University.A team from Yamagata University has announced the discovery of 143 new geoglyphs at Nazca, Peru. A paper by Dr. Masato Sakai explained that...
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GENETIC MARKERS FOUND FOR THE COLORATION OF HORSES PAINTED IN EUROPEAN CAVES:
Horses, Lascaux, France.Internet photo, Public domain.Students of rock art have learned to always be on the lookout for representations of rare or extinct animals as a guide to their actual appearance....
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BRONZE AGE CARVED STONES FROM ORKNEY - FIGURINES OR WHAT?
Two of the figurinesbefore cleaning.Photo - finstown.orkneyOver the past few years enigmatic shaped rocks have been recovered on the British island of Orkney. The team discovering them has dubbed them...
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CAVE ART ACCURACY OF DETAIL IN ANIMAL DEPICTIONS IS BETTER THAN IN HISTORIC ART:
Aurochs, Lascaux Cave, France.Internet photo, Public domain.I have recently written about the question of identifying varieties of deer in cave paintings from their antler shapes, and also about cave...
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ANOTHER COUPLE OF BOGUS SKY MAP INTERPRETATIONS IN ROCK ART:
Rock Painting, ThompsonRiver indians, British Columbia,James Teit's drawing, 1896.I really appreciate examples of enthusiasm expressed about rock art, the problem is when enthusiasm for something is...
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AN ANCIENT GREEK LAPTOP PICTURED IN A MARBLE RELIEF CARVING:
Carved Marble Naiskos,Eastern Greek, circa. 100 BCE.Internet photo, Public Domain.It seem like almost every day we learn how some ancient civilization was surprisingly advanced. Now I have proof that...
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SWEETWATER CAVE. COLORADO, A UTE INDIAN PICTOGRAPH SITE:
Sweetwater Lake, Colorado.Photograph Jared Peltzman. I recently received a communication from Jared Peltzman including a number of photographs he took of rock art at Sweetwater Cave, northwest of the...
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IMAGINARY CREATURES IN ROCK ART - THE INUIT MERCARIBOU:
Eskimo Monster Petroglyph,the mercaribou.Internet file.In addition to the quasi-realistic zoomorphs found in rock art - the images of real animals found in nature - there are another category of animal...
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