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INTERIOR FIGURE ANTHROPOMORPHS:
"The Great Gallery," Barrier CanyonStyle Anthropomorphs, HorseshoeCanyon, Wayne County, Utah.Photo Peter Faris, May 1992.In early rock art of Utah, western Colorado, and to some extent southwestern...
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ANTLERS IN CAVE ART - MEGALOCEROS OR REINDEER:
Caribou, Wikipedia.Public domain.Large numbers of cave images in the painted caves of France show hoofed animals with antlers, and a large number of these are identified as European reindeer (Rangifer...
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CONTEMPORARY ROCK ART - MANI STONES:
Mani stones, Diskit Monastery, India.Photo www.amisingplanet.com.Normally we students of rock art think of our subject as a branch of art history - something interesting that belongs to the past, but...
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CATTLE IN AFRICAN ROCK ART:
Cattle. Photograph TARA(Trust for African Rock Art)Pretty much anywhere you find rock art one of its most important themes is going to be involved with primary sources of food for the indigenous...
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AN EXAMPLE OF ROCK ART FORGERY:
Main panel on rear wallof GvJm16, PhotographStanley Ambrose.I have run across a report of a whole new category of rock art vandalism. Counterfeit rock art produced for Hollywood productions and left...
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EPIGRAPHY - ARE THERE PROTO-SINAITIC INSCRIPTIONS IN COLORADO?
Petroglyphs across from MunsellSite, Buffalo arroyo, PuebloCounty, Colorado.Photograph Peter Faris, Oct. 1998.It is called Diffusionism, the argument that travelers from the Old World visited the New...
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(MIS)APPROPRIATION - KOKOPELLI:
Flute player, Mesa Prieta,Rio Arriba county, New MexicoPhoto Peter Faris, 1997The concept of (mis)appropriation is basically the adoption of one aspect of a particular group or culture by another group...
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HANDEDNESS IN ROCK ART:
Stamped hand prints,Cave of 100 Hands,Fremont Indian State Park,Sevier County, UT. PhotoPeter Faris, 28 May 1992.When I was going through US Army Basic Training in 1965 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri,...
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ROCK ART MADE WITH STENCILS
Stenciled crab, PhotoBrady et. al., 2020, p. 7, Fig. 4-9The creation of rock art images with pigment and stenciling is fairly common in panels of handprints. There are also instances in Australian rock...
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DATING AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART WITH MUD WASP NESTS:
Australian mud wasp, Sceliphron laetum.And while we have been on the subject of rock art in Australia - mud daubers (wasps) have long been a friend to potters as a guide to good deposits of local clays...
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KEYHOLE SINK, KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST, AZ. - ANOTHER RESTORATION:
Keyhole Sink, Kaibab National Forest. Photo Kaibab National Forest.Keyhole Sink panel. Photo Kaibab National Forest.A sad incident of vandalism occurred at Keyhole Sink, in Arizona's Kaibab national...
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ROCK ART DAMAGED BY FIRE IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA:
Australia's Baloon Cave rock art site viewing platform before the fire. Internet photo: public domain.A popular Australian rock art tourist destination, Baloon Cave in Carnarvon Gorge, Queensland,...
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CORPORATE GREED AND VANDALISM - RIO TINTO CORPORATION BLOWS UP SACRED PILBARA...
This cave in the Juukan Gorge, dubbed Juukan 2, was destroyed in a mining blast. Photograph: The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation.In a stunning example of corporate greed and...
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A SUPPOSED STONE MAP PETROGLYPH IN MEXICO:
Photo Rafael Platas Ruiz, INAH, Colima, Mexico.One claim that occurs frequently in rock art interpretation is that a particular design represents a map. In the past I have argued that this is unlikely...
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THIS ROCK ART IN WALES MAY BE BRITAIN'S EARLIEST:
Gower Cave, in Wales, Britain.Photograph: Bradshaw Foundation.A petroglyph discovered in a cave in Wales by an archaeologist from the University of Bristol has been proposed as the earliest petroglyph...
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A POSSIBLE COMET RECORDED AT CABORCA, SONORA, MEXICO:
Petroglyph at Caborca, Sonora, Mexico.Photograph Margaret Berrier, 1993.Comets have always fascinated humans whether seen as good omens or evil portents. As I am writing this Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3)...
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OLDEST SUPERNOVA RECORDED IN KASHMIR?
- - - And to continue in an astronomical vein, a report about a supposed supernova recorded in a petroglyph in Kashmir - - -.Petroglyph panel at Burzahom, Kashmir, India. Photograph IGNCA (Indira...
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GROTTE de CUSSAC, FRANCE, A DECORATED CAVE WITH HUMAN BURIALS:
Human remains in Grotte de Cussac, France. Photo N. Aujoulat et al.A rare, and very interesting, case of human burials in a decorated cave in Europe is represented by the Grotte de Cussac.Grotte de...
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IMAGINARY CREATURES IN ROCK ART, THE MER-CARIBOU REVISITED - THE QUINAULT...
So-called Eskimo Monster Petroglyph. Source unknown.While reading a completely different theme I unexpectedly ran across this reference to the mer-caribou image that I posted on April 11, 2020 in a...
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You will notice that I have modified the format or RockArtBlog again. Ever since Blogger made the last round of gratuitous changes I have been struggling with this. The font got too big with virtually...
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