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SHAMANISM AND ROCK ART - REVISITED:
Dancing Shaman. Image created with DALL-E.I am taking the opportunity to revisit the subject of ‘shamanism’ in rock art because it seems that more and more references to shamanism can be found in books...
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ARCHAEOMAGNETIC DATING OF OLD PICTOGRAPHS:
For forty years I have maintained that it should be possible to date certain old pictographs painted with ochres by archaeomagnetic dating techniques. A 2004 study by Avto Goguitchaichvili and his team...
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IS A MODIFIED CAVE FLOOR IN FRANCE THE EARLIEST KNOWN MAP?
View out of the Ségognole 3 rock shelter, Fontainbleu, in the Paris Basin, France. Online image, public domain.Readers of RockArtBlog may remember that I have been a skeptic of many claims of ancient...
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GEOGLYPHS – A SERPENT INTAGLIO IN KANSAS:
The Great Serpent Mound, Peebles, Ohio. Gettyimages.Most people know of the Great Serpent Mound at Peebles, Ohio. Less well known is a smaller serpent intaglio in Rice County, near Lyons, Kansas. Like...
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HIGHEST ALTITUDE PETROGLYPHS IN EUROPE:
Stelvio National Park, Lombardy, Italy. Image from arkeonews.net.I have written a few previous columns on high altitude rock art (see ‘highest elevation’ in the cloud index at bottom). Now we have...
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A PAINTED DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT IN LESOTHO, AFRICA:
Flag Point track site, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Internet photo public domain.Painted track at Flag Point track site, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah....
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A PETROGLYPH OF BIGHORN SHEEP PLAYING PATTICAKE AT NINE-MILE CANYON:
Column for 1 April, 2025.Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, lambs playing. Internet image, public domain.We have all seen photographs of lambs playing, we have probably all seen photographs of bighorn...
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