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ROCK ART AND EMOTIONS:
Tsagaglalal, "She Who Watches," Horsethief Lake State Park, Klickitat County, WA. Photo Peter Faris, July 2000.How many times have you experienced an emotional response to rock art? It can range from...
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ANOTHER GAME BOARD PETROGLYPH:
Omani game board, Qumayrah Valley, Oman. Photograph J. Sliwa, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Poland.I have, in the past, written a few columns about petroglyphs that...
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I just received this question from someone as an anonymous comment. As I have stated before I cannot answer anonymous comments without an e-mail address."Peter, Do you know anything about the Labyrinth...
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UPPER MIDWESTERN “BISON STONES”, EFFIGIES OR PAREIDOLIA:
Iniskim, photograph Scott Burgan. Note the contour of the division line between upper and lower sections.Fossil baculite, photograph Peter Faris, 11 November 2010. Notice the sectional contour of the...
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF PERSPECTIVE ANAMORPHOSIS IN ROCK ART – THE LASCAUX RED BULL:
Three Kings panel, McConkey Ranch, Vernal, Utah. Photograph Peter Faris, September 1990.I have discussed the subject of anamorphosis previously on RockArtBlog. According to Wikipedia “Anamorphosis is a...
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GROCERIES OR METAPHOR? - RARE ROCK ART IMAGES OF BUTCHERING GAME:
Bighorn sheep with arrows, Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico. Photograph 1988, John and Esther Faris.Back in 2011 I posted a column titled “Bighorn Sheep Petroglyphs – Groceries or Metaphor?”...
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FIDDLER CRABS IN THE GRAND CANYON?For a very long time Creationist fringies have been desperately trying to prove that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. In 1980 Beierle’s book “Man, Dinosaur, and...
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ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS AND ROCK ART:
Sunrise over Lake Dillon, Colorado. Photograph Robbie Seibel,14 March 2022.This column revisits the subject of parhelia or sun dogs in rock art, prompted by a photograph by Robbie Seibel, taken 22...
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TYUONYI AND ITS RELATED ROCK ART - ANOTHER CLAIMED CONNECTION TO ORION:
Tyunonyi ruin, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos County, New Mexico. Photograph Peter Faris, September 1985.Tyuyoni ruin, Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos county, New...
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NEW CAVE ART DISCOVERED IN ITALY'S ROMANELLI CAVE:
Location of Romanelli Cave, Italy. Illustration from ancientorigins.net.Another example of the dictum that there is always more to discover has played out in the heel of the Italian boot, where more...
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CONVENTIONS OF PORTRAYAL IN ARTISTIC COMPOSITIONS:
Nefertari (queen of Ramses the Great) with a sistrum, Internet photograph, public domain.Conventions of portrayal are essentially the rules that standards-setters and influencers in any group agree on...
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DID WE SEE A BLACK-FOOTED FERRET AT CASTLE GARDENS, WYOMING?
Castle Gardens, Wyoming.Location of Castle Gardens, Wyoming.In September 1992 a group from the Colorado Archaeological Society was visiting the wonderful rock art site of Castle Gardens, Wyoming. At...
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S. BROWN, CO. F, 3RD I, 1859 - SIGNATURE ROCK, BOISE CITY, OK:
S. Brown, Co. F, 3rd I, 1859, Signature Rock, Boise City, Oklahoma. Photograph Peter Faris, 12 June 2006. Close-up of signature, S. Brown, Co. F, 3rd I, 1859, Signature Rock, Boise City, Oklahoma....
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THE NEANDERTAL “HASHTAG” IN GORHAM’S CAVE REVISITED:
Neandertal "hashtag" in Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. Internet photograph, public domain.On September 17, 2014, I posted a column here on RockArtBlog titled “Rock Art in Gibraltar Cave Attributed to...
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MISINTERPRETING LA PASIEGA:
Neandertal scalariform and associated pictographs, La Pasiega Cave, France. Illustration from www.donsmaps.com.In a 2019 paper Mark-Olivieri Rondu provided a very detailed theory explanating the...
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THE KNEELING SWEDE – THE KNEELING WOMAN OF TANUM, SWEDEN:
Vitlyke Rock Art Panel, near Tanum, Sweden. The kneeling figure is in the lower right. Illustration from european-traveler.com.The Scandinavian countries have a great deal of rock art and, as we would...
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CAVEAT EMPTOR IN ANCIENT MESOPETAMIA – A RECORD OF A CUSTOMER COMPLAINT:
Complaint tablet, cuneiform, Ur, Mesopotamia. Photograph British Museum.For as long as people have been exchanging things there have been instances of customer dissatisfaction. The first-known record...
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ROCK ART APPRECIATION:
Horses, aurochs, and rhinoceroses, Chauvet Cave, France. Photograph worldhistory.org.As an Art Historian, the subject of Art Appreciation is always there, part of the consideration for any creative...
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PROPOSED DATING FOR THE ROCK ART PANELS AT LA LINDOSA, COLUMBIA:
La Lindosa rock art panel, Columbia. Internet photograph, public domain.On 2 January 2021, I reported on the reporting of extensive pictograph panels at a site in Colombia known as La Lindosa...
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SOLAR RELATED FIGURES IN SOUTHWESTERN ROCK ART:
Figure connected to a Sun disc, Ancestral Puebloan, Petroglyph Park, Albuquerque, MN. Photograph Peter Faris, September 1988.There are a number of variations of solar figure found in rock art of the...
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