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A BEGINNER’S MISTAKE – BIGFOOT MAN AT MCCONKIE RANCH:
http://adventr.co/201103/dry-fork-mcconkie-ranch.Among the marvelous Fremont culture rock art at McConkie Ranch outside Vernal, Utah is the figure known as Bigfoot Man. Done in what Polly Schaafsma...
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WATER GLYPHS:
In 2004 William D. Hyder wrote “How people interact with the environment is, in part, a projection of their culture. Patterns in the location of human activities can be interpreted as evidence of...
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OGAM? OR RIBSTONES? IN COLORADO:
Baca County, CO., Photo: Peter Faris, Feb. 1996.Back in the late 1980s I took frequent trips down to southeastern Colorado to accompany my friend Bill McGlone on trips to rock art sites. Bill lived in...
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PICTOGRAPH PIGMENTS - PAINT MINES, COLORADO:
White clay deposits, Paint Mines, Calhan, El Paso county,Colorado. Photograph: Peter Faris, 2007.Northeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado, 35 to 40 miles on highway #24 is found the small town of Calhan...
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THE DECALOGUE STONE - LOS LUNAS, NEW MEXICO:
The Decalogue Stone, Los Lunas, New Mexico. Wikipedia.Did ancient Israelites, or at least Semites, wander around the...
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WHERE BARRY FELL – PICTURE CANYON:
Picture Canyon, Baca County, Colorado. Photograph: Peter Faris, 21 Sept., 1986.Back in the 1970s there was considerable public interest in the diffusionist theories of Barry Fell. Fell believed that...
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WHERE BARRY FELL – MCCONKIE RANCH:
3-Kings panel detail, McConkey Ranch, UintaCounty, UT. Photo Peter Faris, Sept. 1994.I now return to the subject of the epigraphy of Barry Fell, and my inability to place any credence in his...
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MAPS IN ROCK ART – 3-D CARVED MAPS:
I have often argued in the past, perhaps a little too strenuously for some of my friends, that I do not believe that most rock art identified as maps can possibly be actual maps in the way we...
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WHERE BARRY FELL – PICTURE CANYON #2:
On August 3, 2013, I began a series of postings questioning the conclusions of Barry Fell and his fellow epigraphers back in the 1970s and 1980s. My first example was located in Picture Canyon, in Baca...
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THE MOST NORTHERN KOKOPELLI REVISITED - GROTTO CANYON, ALBERTA, CANADA:
On June 29, 2013, I put up a posting titled “The Most Northern Kokopelli” in which I discussed some examples of the hump-backed flute player that appeared farther north than usual. At that time I...
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WHERE BARRY FELL – CASTLE GARDEN, WYOMING:
Castle Gardens, Wyoming.Continuing to kick poor old Barry Fell around, we now come to what I feel may be the most egregious example of falsification and fabrication in his whole repertoire. In central...
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BIRDS IN ROCK ART - THE STEIN RIVER OWL:
Stein River owl, from York, "They Write Their Dreams on the Rocks Forever", p.221.Fig. 156. Stein Valley Owl, York, "They Write Their Dreams on the Rocks Forever", p.236.A variation of the owl figure...
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A WEATHER SYMBOL IN ROCK ART:
Meteorological symbols. Figure 80, York, They Write Their Dreams on the Rocks Forever, p. 115.The 'Nlaka'pamux people of the Stein River Valley, in British Columbia, Canada, have a heritage of rock art...
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A WEATHER SYMBOL IN ROCK ART - 2, LIGHTNING:
Meteorological panel, Stein River valley, British Columbia, Canada. Figure 80, York, They Write Their Dreams on the Rocks Forever, p. 115. On April 17, 2010, I posted a column titled Meteorology in...
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WHERE BARRY FELL - GALISTEO BASIN, NEW MEXICO:
Close-up, Galisteo Dike, Santa Fe County, NM, Photograph: Peter Faris, Sept. 1988.I have been commenting on what I consider to be egregious misinterpretations and outright falsifications by Barry Fell...
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AN EARTHQUAKE SYMBOL PICTOGRAPH:
The pictograph panel below includes a fascinating example of a geological phenomenon illustrated in rock art - the earthquake.York, Annie, "They Write Their Dreams on theRocks Forever," 1993, fig. 102,...
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Although I try for the most part to not use this forum as an outlet for my feelings and complaints, I do need to make a short editorial statement at this time on many responses I have received on my...
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HORSE DECORATION IN ROCK ART - BRANDS:
General Crook's horse, Dragon Trail, Rangely, CO.Photograph: Peter Faris, September 1990. Some petroglyphs that illustrate horses seem to also indicate a mark on the body of the animal. In some...
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HORSE DECORATION IN ROCK ART – PAINT:
Warriors of the Plains horse tribes painted their horses for special occasions. These painted markings and symbols were not so much an identifier in the nature of the Angle horse brand as they were an...
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DEVIL’S TOWER, WYOMING:
Bear's Lodge Butte (Devil's Tower), Wyoming.Photograph: Peter Faris, June 2013.High on every list of sites that are sacred to Native Americans is Bear Lodge Butte, listed on our maps and in our records...
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