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UNDERWATER ROCK ART - PART 1, NATURALLY DROWNED ROCK ART:
Post-glacial sea level rise, Wikipedia.The idea for his column originated with the concept of rising coastal water levels as global ice-melting caused by climate change continues. Some shoreline rock...
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UNDERWATER ROCK ART - PART 2, ROCK ART IN THE PROCESS OF BEING SUBMERGED:
The major factor in natural coastal rock art submersion is climate change, the warming of the earth by the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. “Global mean sea level has risen about 8-9...
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UNDERWATER ROCK ART: PART 3 - ROCK ART DROWNED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY.
Another category of underwater rock art has to be sites that were flooded intentionally with dams for hydroelectric power, or for irrigation impoundment, and navigational locks.Horses, Coa Valley,...
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UNDERWATER ROCK ART, PART 4 - FAKES:
Supposed mammoth, Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. Photograph Mike Holley, 2015.In any detailed examination of a subject there are always bound to be a few surprises and this one is no exception. In my...
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A PETROGLYPHIC AGE NOTATION?
Picture Canyon, Baca County, Colorado. Photograph Peter Faris, 21 September 1986.In Picture Canyon, southeast Colorado, there is a petroglyph of a woman’s figure with seventeen circles (sixteen...
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A NEW CANDIDATE FOR THE OLDEST PICTOGRAPH - THE SULAWESI PIG:
45,500 year old pictograph of Sulawesi warty pig, Leang-Tedongnge Cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Internet photo, Public Domain.Rock art researchers in Indonesia have announced the discovery of another...
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REPTILES IN ROCK ART - THE HORNED LIZARD:
Regal horned Lizard. Wikipedia.Like many people, I have always been fascinated by horned lizards. These endearing little guys seem to have something special about them. It has always been a pleasurable...
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MUSIC AT ROCK ART SITES - THE MARSOULAS CONCH SHELL TRUMPET:
Engraved aurochs, Grotte de Marsoulas, France. Internet image, Public Domain. Marsoulis, Photo Heinrich Wendel, donsmaps.com.I have previously posted a number of...
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NEW MAYAN CAVE PAINTINGS DISCOVERED IN YUCATAN:
New Mayan cave paintings discovered in the Yucatan.An important discovery of Mayan paintings has been discovered in a cave 12 meters below ground in the eastern Yucatan by a team of archaeologists led...
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ROCK INSCRIPTIONS - HUNGER STONES
Nilometer, Egypt. Internet image, Public Domain.Readers of RockArtBlog will remember that I include inscriptions on stone as a part of our field of interest. I cannot personally find the dividing line...
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OBESE FIGURES IN PALEOLITHIC ART:
"Venus" of Willendorf, 4.4", carved limestone, covered with ochre, ca. 25,000 BCE, Austria. Internet photo, Wikipedia, Public Domain.Among the many mysteries in Paleolithic art are the chubby little...
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POLYDACTYLY REVISITED - PART 1:
Six-toed footprint, Newspaper Rock, Utah. Photograph Richard Coleman.A fascinating feature of rock art is the occasional occurrence of polydactylism (polydactyly) in hand or foot prints. I have written...
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POLYDACTYLY REVISITED - PART 2:
I now pick up my examination of polydactyly in rock art in Chaco Canyon. Chaco canyon is a center or cluster site for six-toed footprints, leading some researchers to speculate that if the Chaco Canyon...
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EXTINCT ANIMALS IN ROCK ART - THE NAUGA:
A group of naugas. Dinwoody style petroglyphs, Fremont County, Wyoming. Photograph Peter Faris, September 1992.Rock Art researchers have long referred to images of animals in rock art to try to picture...
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POLYDACTYLISM IN ROCK ART - BEAR PAW PRINTS, PART 1:
12-toed bear paw prints, Sieber Canyon, Mesa County, Colorado. Photograph Peter Faris, 23 August 1981.As I have written elsewhere on the question of polydactyly (polydactylism) in human hand and foot...
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POLYDACTYLISM IN ROCK ART - BEAR PAW PRINTS, PART 2:
8-toed bear paw print, probable Fremont petroglyph, Nine-Mile Canyon, UT. Photograph Paul and Joy Foster.Back to the subject of polydactyly in bears and bear paw prints; I have written previously about...
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THE ENIGMATIC FIGURE AT BALANCED ROCK, UTAH - BOLAS, JUGGLING OR RATTLES:
Balanced Rock, Nine-Mile Canyon, Utah. Internet photograph, Public Domain.Most rock art researchers, at least those in the western United States, know of the rock art in Nine Mile Canyon, Utah. “Nine...
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HIGH ON HYPOXIA - DID OXYGEN DEPRIVATION INSPIRE PALEOLITHIC CAVE ART?
Painted wall at Chauvet Cave France. Photograph from www.donsmaps.com.“Don’t take the brown acid, it’s bad” Does anyone remember Wavy Gravy’s announcement at Woodstock? This came to mind as I read a...
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A CARVED SLAB IN FRANCE IS CLAIMED TO BE THE OLDEST MAP IN EUROPE:
St. Belec slab, France. Photograph ancientorigins.net.Well, here we go again. Another carved stone slab has been designated as a map, and not just any map. No, this map has been designated the oldest...
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OBITUARY: Dr. William S. Hammond, 7 May 1931 to 4 February 2021. We just found the announcement on 10 May 2021 of the passing of our friend Bill Hammond. I have known Bill in the Colorado...
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