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HARMONIC CONVERGENCE IN CHACO CANYON, NEW MEXICO – AUGUST 16 & 17, 1987:
Chaco Canyon, trail to Penasco Blanco, San Juancounty, NM. Photograph: Peter Faris, May 1994.Twenty seven years ago, on August 16 and 17, 1987, I was camped in Chaco Canyon with a group of friends from...
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“FRATERNITY OF WAR, PLAINS INDIAN ROCK ART AT BEAR GULCH AND ATHERTON CANYON, MONTANA - CONTINUED” Keyser, James D., David A. Kaiser, George Poetschat,And Michael W. Taylor, 2012, Fraternity of...
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TALLIES IN ROCK ART:
One category of rock art symbolism that has not been satisfactorily explained is the series or group of markings classified as a tally. We assume that they are a tally because we would use marks like...
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TALLIES IN ROCK ART CONTINUED:
Cheyenne River Coup Count, Linnea Sundstrom.A recent paper,Rock Art Tallies: Mathematics on Stone in Western North America, in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (Vol. 3, No. 2, July 2013, pages 76...
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COUP COUNTS IN ROCK ART – RIFLES:
Painted Rifles, Farrington Springs, at the canal, BentCounty, CO. Photo Peter Faris, October 1990.One type of coup that conferred high honor on a Plains Indian warrior was earned by capturing his...
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URANIUM ISOTOPE DATING REVEALS PERHAPS THE OLDEST CAVE ART IN EUROPE:
El Castillo cave, Photograph by Pedro Saura,www.sciencedaily.com.On Saturday April 21, 2012, in a posting entitled "Neanderthal Use of Red Ochre Pigment", I speculated that I thought that Neanderthal...
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ROCK ART IN GIBRALTAR CAVE ATTRIBUTED TO NEANDERTAL OCCUPATION:
Gorham Cave, Gibraltar. www.usnews.comA September 1, 2014, posting in www.usnews.com by Alan Neuhauser, reported the attribution of an engraved crosshatching on the wall of Gorham Cave in Gibraltar to...
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CLAN SYMBOL ROSTERS – TALLIES OR NOT?
Red Ant, Bluebird, Sun, Crow, Katsina, Corn, and Coyote clansymbols. From Don D. Christensen, Jerry Dickey, and StevenM. Freers, 2013, Rock Art of the Glen Canyon Region,Sunbelt Publications, San...
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INDONESIAN CAVE ART DATED TO SAME AGE AS THE OLDEST ART IN EUROPE:
Indonesian cave painting. Photograph fromhttp://www.npr.org/2014/10/08/354166930/indonesian-cave-paintings-as-old-as-europes-ancient-art, attributedto Kinza Riza/ Courtesy of Nature.com.A story from...
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VANDALISM CASE SETTLED WITH FINE AND (HOPEFULLY) A LESSON:
The Pregnant-buffalo petroglyph, Nine-MileCanyon, Carbon County, UT. From OgdenStandard-Examiner, July 29, 2014.A recent case of rock art vandalism has been settled with a fine, and (hopefully) a...
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BARRIER CANYON STYLE PICTOGRAPH DATES?
Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands, WayneCounty, UT, Photo: Peter Faris, 28 May 1992.A recent article from the Salt Lake City Tribune, written by Brian Maffly, reopened the question of the...
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HOPI CLAN REGISTERS AS A ROCK ART LEXICON FOR THE SOUTHWEST - SQUASH BLOSSOMS:
Back in the 1980s, Jim Keyser pointed out the value of sources of Plains Biographic Style art such as robe painting and ledger book art as a lexicon for understanding Plains Biographic Style imagery in...
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ROCK ALIGNMENTS IN THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL, UTAH:
The lower loop of the large, 450' rock figure.Photograph courtesy of Jonathan Bailey.Have you ever wondered what, in our fascination with looking at rock art on the cliff faces, we might be missing...
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SHIELDS AND SHIELD FIGURES IN ROCK ART:
All-American Man, Salt Creek, Canyonlands, UT.Photograph: 1983, Don I. Campbell.One fascinating class of imagery in rock art is the well-known shield figures of the American West. Although seen in a...
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NORTHERN PLAINS SHIELD BEARING WARRIORS - A BOOK REVIEW:
I cannot speak for everyone else, but Shield Figures have long been a favorite rock art theme of mine. The many ways they are portrayed, and visual conventions used, have fascinated me from the...
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HOPI CLAN REGISTERS AS A ROCK ART LEXICON FOR THE SOUTHWEST - RABBIT:
Jackrabbit, Legend Rock, WY. Photograph Peter Faris.Black-tailed or desert jackrabbit, Wikipedia.Mimbres bowl with rabbit in the moon. From Kachinas inthe Pueblo World, 1996, Polly Schaafsma,...
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SPEECH SCROLLS IN ROCK ART?
Chaco Canyon, trail to Penasco Blanco, San Juan county,New Mexico. Photograph Peter Faris, May 1994. A familiar convention in Mesoamerican art is the speech scroll, a curved line or shape in front of...
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THE DOHENY SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE HAVA SUPAI CANYON, NORTHERN ARIZONA,...
The Grand Canyon petroglyph in question.On June 21, 2014, I posted a column titled DINOSAURS IN ROCK ART – THE HAVASUPAI CANYON HADROSAUR. In this I expressed my disbelief in the claims of creationists...
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THE DOHENY SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO THE HAVA SUPAI CANYON, NORTHERN ARIZONA,...
Hubbard's photograph of a man supposedly fightingwith an elephant in Havasupai Canyon.On June 21, 2014, I posted a column titled DINOSAURS IN ROCK ART – THE HAVASUPAI CANYON HADROSAUR. In this I...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2014From RockArtBlogRain tree, from Hicklin Springs,5BN7, Bent County, Colorado.© 2009, Peter Faris
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