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ANASAZI WALL PAINTING: NOGALES CLIFF HOUSE, NEW MEXICO – A REALLY NEAT SITE:
Nogales Cliff House, New Mexico.Photograph Peter Faris, 1993.Back in 1993, our friends Bill and Jeannie took a group of people from the Denver Chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society on a Rock...
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NATIVE AMERICAN ASTRONOMY: THE PLEIADES - OR NOT!
While I will be the first to argue the validity of some aspects of the field known as archeoastronomy, I am also a critic of the empty assumptions made by some people who claim to be archeoastronomy...
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THE GRANBY, COLORADO, STONE IDOL:
Three views of the Granby, Coloradostone idol. From the 1925 reportby Samuel Hubbard.In October and November of 1924, the Doheny Expedition to Havasupai canyon was fielded by the Oakland Museum,...
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INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL, NORTH BRANCH – LOUIS ROBIDOUX:
On September 25, 2011, I posted a column entitled Antoine Robidoux, 13 November 1837 – An Historic Inscription. In that posting I told the back story of a historic inscription found along Westwater...
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BIRDS IN ROCK ART - THE ROADRUNNER:
Roadrunner petroglyph at 3-Rivers (withfootprint above him), New Mexico.Photograph Jack and Esther Faris, 1988. Roadrunner tracks, St. George, Utah. A distinctive bird in the American Southwest is...
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ROCK ART IN JAMAICA:
As I explain below, I wanted this to be a first-hand report of wonderful rock art that I hoped to see in Jamaica. It did not turn out that way. So this is now a review of publications by Lesley-Gail...
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PAINTED HANDPRINTS AT THE MAYAN SITE OF SAN GERVASIO, COZUMEL, MEXICO:
Las Manitas, San Gervasio, Cozumel, Mexico.Photograph Peter Faris, March 2015.Las Manitas building group. Las Manitas marked bythe arrow. La Tumba to its lower left and ChichenNah to lower right....
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COLORADO ROCK ART ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES MOVED:
View of Special Collections department, Pueblo City-County Regional Library, Pueblo, Colorado. Photograph: Tammi Moe,Librarian-Archivist, June, 2015.On Monday and Tuesday, June 1 and 2, 2015, the...
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PIGMENTS FROM FATE BELL SHELTER, VAL VERDE COUNTY, TEXAS:
View of Fate Bell Shelter, Seminole CanyonState Park, Val Verde County, TX.Photo: March 2004, Peter Faris.Among other aspects of the fascination in rock art is the material question or physical aspect...
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MILK PAINT IN MIDDLE STONE AGE - SOUTH AFRICA:
The question of tools and materials used to create rock art has received another fascinating contribution with the discovery of a small piece of flat rock with a red ocher pigment on it from a rock...
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CONGRESSIONAL HOUSE CHAIRMAN BISHOP CALLS NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS "BULL...
Rock art at Basin and Range Nat. Monument.Photograph from www.protectbasinandrange.org. Rock art at Basin and Range Nat. Monument.Photograph from www.protectbasinandrange.org. Rock art at Basin and...
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BIRDS IN ROCK ART - GREAT BLUE HERON:
Rabbit Valley, McDonald Creek, Mesa County,Colorado. Photograph Peter Faris, 1981.The painted bird in this panel is found in Rabbit Valley, the McDonald Creek drainage, in western Colorado, and is...
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AN ILLUSTRATION OF RADIATION POISONING IN KAKADU ROCK ART - UBIRR:
Ubirr, Kakadu, Australia. Aug. 22, 2011,public domain, patienttalk.org-2.On July 28, 2015, PBS aired a documentary titled "Uranium - Twisting the Dragon's Tail." This documentary, dated 2015, presented...
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WIND SYMBOLS IN ROCK ART OF CHACO CANYON:
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.Photograph Peter Faris, August 1984.Double Scroll from Fajada Butte, ChacoCanyon, New Mexico. Sofaer, Anna P.,and Rolf M. Sinclair, 2008, AstronomicalMarkings at Three Sites on...
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ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS, THE ZIA SUN SYMBOL, AND THE FOUR POINTED STAR:
Painted cave, Bandeliere NationalMonument, New Mexico. Zia sunsymbol in center. Photograph Russ Finley.Zia sun symbol, public domain.On the night of the 4th of July, 2015, while watching the bursting...
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THE MARTIN BOWDIN GALLERY IN THE PURGATORY - PART 1:
Bowdin Trail marker, 1911,Purgatory Canyon, Colorado.Back in the 1980s I heard talk about a remarkable gallery of painted animals in the upper Purgatory region of southeastern Colorado. At that time...
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THE MARTIN BOWDIN GALLERY IN THE PURGATORY - PART 2:
Eldon Brown family at Martin Bowden'shome, Photograph by Eldon Brown,from John and Daphne Rudolph.Continuing the story of Martin Bowden, the hermit painter of the Purgatoire River. Bowden had a...
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CORRELATION IS NOT CONFIRMATION:
In this season of ramping up the hysteria toward the 2016 presidential election we are already hearing about the results of many polls per week proving that one candidate this, and another candidate...
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HUMAN AND DINOSAUR COEXISTENCE:
Supposed Cambodian stegosaurcarving, artalien.netEpisode ten of season four on Ancient Aliens, on H2 channel, was named Aliens and Dinosaurs. This program proved the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs...
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PENITENTE ROCK ART:
Abiquiu morada, Abiquiu, New Mexico. Photograph Peter Faris,September 2011.This posting is a review of an article from Archaeology magazine, May/June 2015 issue, volume 68, number3, pages 42-47, by...
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