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SULAWESI'S BADA VALLEY MEGALITHS:
Lore Linda megaliths, Bada Valley, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Online photograph, public domain.Lore Linda megaliths, Bada Valley, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Online photograph, public domain.Earlier this year I...
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MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE HOMININ HAND AND FOOT IMPRESSIONS IN TIBET:
Handprint and footprint panel from Quesang, Tibet. Internet photo.One subject of continual interest is the age of any example of art, particularly the earliest (oldest) example of art. Previously,...
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FLUIDICS? - THE DOLMEN OF THE NORTH-WEST CAUCASUS AND THE BIZARRE REPORTS...
Dolman in Caucasus. Online photograph, public domain.Dolman in Caucasus. Online photograph, public domain.Burial structures known as dolmen occur through much of Eurasia, the Mediterranean, and in the...
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SYMBOLS FOR GEOLOGIC PHENOMENA IN ROCK ART – EARTHQUAKES REVISITED:
"Pictogram representing an earthquake that took place on the year 2 Reeds or 1507. The gloss describes that the pictogram recounts the drowning of 1800 warriors in an unidentified river, presumably in...
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WHALE HUNTING ARTISTS OF NORTHERN SIBERIA – THE PEGTYMEL PETROGLYPHS:
Pegtymel petroglyphs, Russia. Photograph Chukotka Travel. Pegtymel petroglyphs, Russia. Photograph Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences.One of the interesting things about us...
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DID A REVERSAL OF THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD STIMULATE THE RISE OF ROCK ART?
Cave of El Castillo, Spain. Handprints dated to 40,800 years BP. Photo 2012, University of Bristol.It is fairly well known that the Earth’s magnetic field has been weakening and the North magnetic Pole...
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A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF PAIN IN AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC PETROGLYPH?
Spotted Woman, Picture Canyon, southeast Colorado. Photograph Peter Faris, 1986. Chalking by some unknown vandal.In Picture Canyon, in southeastern Colorado, are found hundreds of petroglyphs, among...
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700-YEAR-OLD PETROGLYPHS VANDALIZED NEAR MOAB, UTAH:
"Birthing Rock" site near Moab, Utah. Online photograph, public domain.Writing for KSL.com, Carter Williams has had the sad duty of describing the vandalism of two petroglyph panels this year near...
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THE CHOQUEQUILLA INCA HUACA:
Choquequilla huaca from inside the cave. Photograph Greg Willis.I have previously written about Qenqo in Peru (a three-dimensional carved boulder resembling a landscape with land contours and...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2021
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, a happy New Year's Eve, and all the best in 2021. This illustration is used with the permission of Gary Cascio who took the photograph. Check out his beautiful...
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ROCK ART OF ANCIENT KYRGYZSTAN – PART 1:
Petroglyph panel, Kyrgyzstan. Internet photograph, public domain.The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan is possessed of a great deal of rock art, especially beautiful petroglyphs of ibex. Kyrgyzstan...
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ROCK ART OF ANCIENT KYRGYZSTAN, PART 2 – HUNTING WITH EAGLES:
Eagle hunter petroglyph. Cholpon ata, near Issyk-kul lake, Kyrgyzstan.The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan is possessed of a great deal of rock art, especially beautiful petroglyphs of ibex....
View ArticleA COMMENT, AND AN ANSWER:
An answer to a question from "Joseph" concerning my 16 February 2019 column EXTINCT ANIMALS IN ROCK ART - THE TIAHUANACO TOXODON?"You are confident they do not represent Toxodon, so what do they...
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THE 2021 C.R.A.P. AWARD GOES TO THE DISCOVERER OF HOPI U.F.O.s:
2021 C.R.A.P. AWARDYes, that’s right, the esteemed C.R.A.P. (Certifiable Rock Art Prevarication) award for 2021 goes to Gary A. David for his discovery of Hopi Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)....
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ARE SHADOWS PORTRAYED IN ROCK ART – THEY ARE IMPLIED IN CAVE ART:
Auroch, Lascaux cave, Spain. Online photograph, public domain.Another auroch, Lascaux cave, Spain. Online photograph, public domain.I have been trying for a while now to find a pictograph or petroglyph...
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A 3,500-YEAR-OLD GHOST IMAGE:
Babylonian ghost tablet. Photograph British Museum, from the internet.I know, I know it isn’t really rock art – it’s a Babylonian clay tablet, but a 3,500 year old picture of a ghost is so cool I just...
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THE PORTRAYAL OF COLOR PATTERNS AND SHADING ON HORSES IN CAVE PAINTING:
Continuing the quest for shadows in rock art, specifically the majestic art of Europe’s painted caves.Countershading on painted horses in Lascaux cave, France. Internet photograph, public...
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DATED NEANDERTAL CAVE ART PROVIDES A NEW CANDIDATE FOR OLDEST ROCK ART:
"ARTISTIC SURPRISE - Red horizontal and vertical lines painted on the walls of a Spanish cave date to at least 64,800 years ago, a new study finds. Since Homo sapiens had not reached Europe at that...
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SOME SWEET PICTOGRAPHS – HONEY COLLECTING IN SPANISH ROCK ART:
Close-up. A honey hunting scene at abrigo de Barranco Gómez in Castellote, Teruel, Spain. Online photograph, public domain.Sorry, I just could not resist, but finding this report was...
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ROCK ART PAINTINGS OF HONEYBEE COMBS IN THE WESTERN CAPE - A SWEET SUBJECT:
African bee honeycombs. From Tribe, 2021, fig.1.In my last column I reported on pictographs from Spain of people collecting honey from the nests of wild bees dated 7,500 – 8,000 years ago.Pictograph...
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