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RAINBOWS IN ROCK ART:
Rainbow with traces of supernumerary arcs. YellowstonePark, Wyoming. Photo: Peter Faris, 2007.One weather phenomenon that is welcomed by everyone is the rainbow. It is welcomed for its beauty,...
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A MEDICINE SYMBOL IN ROCK ART:
Lone Dog, 1809-10, "Black-Stone made medicine",Goode and Thornton, 2007, p. 147.In their wonderful book The Year The Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (2007), Candace Greene and...
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GAME BOARDS IN ROCK ART, REVISITED – MU TORERE:
Petroglyph, Pu'uLoa, Hawaii, Photo Joe Belef, 2007.On 2/1/13, referring to a photograph taken by Joe Belef used in my posting GAME BOARDS, CONTINUED, on 12/29/12, Anonymous sent the following comment:...
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HOLIDAY WEEKEND - In honor of the holiday weekend I am going to post this week's column on Monday, April 1, 2013. Please check back then.© 2009, Peter Faris
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PETROGLYPH PROVIDES PROOF OF EXTINCT PENGUINS IN OHIO:
Petroglyph, Leo, Jackson County, Ohio. Photograph: Peter Faris, July 1985.The discovery of a rare Native American petroglyph at the Leo petroglyph site, near Leo, Ohio, has confirmed the presence of...
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WHAT THE HELL IS THAT:
Photo: Paul and Joy Foster, Green River, UT.Once in a while we come across an image that just makes us stop and stare. This photo is from a panel along the Green River in Utah and was taken by Paul and...
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KANEIKOKALA - A HAWAIIAN SHARK DEITY:
Kaneikokala, in Bishop Museum, Honolulu.Photograph: Peter Faris, 10/21/2010.An example of Hawaiian large scale stone carving is this figure of Kaneikokala in the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. Kaneikokala...
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AUSTRALIA'S GENYORNIS, EXTINCT ANIMALS AND TRACKS IN ROCK ART:
Extraordinary Engraved Bird Track from NorthAustralia, Ouzman, et. al., 2002, CambridgeArch. Journal, Vol. 12, 2002, p. 103-112.In 2002, a fascinating article published in the Cambridge Archaeological...
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"DISCOVERING SOUTH CAROLINA’S ROCK ART", BY TOMMY CHARLES:
Circle-and-line petroglyph. From: Discovering South Carolina's Rock Art, Tommy Charles, 2010, fig. 65, p.73. Circle-and-line petroglyph in position to process pine tar. From: Discovering South...
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BIRDS IN ROCK ART, PUEO – THE HAWAIIAN OWL:
Puako owl, Hawaii, Ellen Belef, Sept. 2012. At the Puako petroglyph site on the island of Hawaii, this figure on the right is called the Puako Owl. If this identification is correct that means that it...
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Revisiting the subject of "is rock art really art?" This one question probably generates more arguements in the field than anything else. Second would probably be the S-word, "Shamanism," and epigraphy...
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THE OLDEST ROCK ART PHOTOGRAPH:
On June 3, 2009, I posted the following column under the title Charles Darwin's Bear. "Don't Deface the Bear", 5BN651, Picketwire canyon, Bent County, CO., Photograph, Peter Faris, June, 1991."At the...
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BIRKLAND CURRENTS IN PLASMA DISCHARGES AND ROCK ART – PART 1:
OR, INSECTS IN ROCK ART - EARWIGS (REVISITED).Village of the Great Kivas, Zuni, photo Teresa Weedin.On June 18, 2010, I published a posting on some insectiform petroglyphs that I suggested represent...
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BIRKELAND CURRENTS IN PLASMA DISCHARGES AND ROCK ART – PART 2:
OR, INSECTS IN ROCK ART - THE EARWIG (REVISITED). Birkeland currents created in a laboratory. Public domain. Now, to resume the discussion of whether the petroglyphs in question are insects (more...
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CANTIL DE LAS ANIMAS, TEPIC, MEXICO:
Cantil de las Animas, Photo - Mauricio Garduño, INAH.A petroglyph panel discovered in Nayarit in western Mexico, was recently reported by ArtDaily.com. Archaeologist Mauricio Garduño, of the National...
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HISPANIC ROCK ART – THE CRUCIFIX:
F.B. Delgado, Signature Rock, Boise City, OK. Photo: Peter Faris, June 12,2006.As we might expect in an area inhabited by a people as religiously devout as the Hispanic residents of the early...
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DOGS IN ROCK ART:
Depictions of domestic dogs in rock art are found fairly common. Domesticated dogs can often be identified by the patterns of their coats. While the large wild canines of North America, the wolf and...
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AN EARLY ROCK ART RECORD BY DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE:
Kokopelli, Canyon Pintado, Rio Blanco County, CO.Photograph: Peter Faris, September 1990.In 1776 the Spanish priests Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Sylvestre Velez de Escalante led an...
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PERSPECTIVE ANAMORPHOSIS - AN EXAMPLE IN ROCK ART:
Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533. Wikipedia.There is a perspective trick used in the visual arts which can be used to manipulate proportion in an image to affect how it is perceived by the viewer....
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THE MOST NORTHERN KOKOPELLI:
The figure that we call Kokopelli has been adapted from the beliefs of the Pueblo peoples of the American southwest. This character often has a humped or rounded back and something like a flute held...
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