Rock Art

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:12 am

http://www.une.edu.au/Arch/ROCKART/Dating.html

A good and reasonable question has been raised concerning the datology of rock art. Here is an excellent article on that very thing.

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:41 am

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... php?page=1
Another article about rock art, I was fascinated by the way they painted them.

Ancient nomads created the larger-than-life image perhaps as long as 7,000 years ago by filling their mouths with red ocher-tinted paint and spraying it out with a mighty burst onto the sandstone. The “Holy Ghost” (p. 50) is the focal point of the Great Gallery, a vast mural some 300 feet long and featuring about 80 figures, located a five-hour drive southeast of Salt LakeCity in Utah’s HorseshoeCanyon. No one knows for sure what the images represent or why they were painted.

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:59 am

I found this wonderful article about the Grand Canyon at the Smithsonian Magazine site. Don't want to start a thread and it does talk about rock art on the last page sooo...
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... canyon.php

During the previous 20 years, I had found hundreds of rock art panels in backcountry all over the Southwest. I knew the hallmarks of the styles by which experts have categorized them—Glen Canyon Linear, Chihuahuan Polychrome, San Juan Anthropomorphic and the like. But the Shamans’ Gallery, as this rock art panel has been named, fit none of those taxonomic pigeonholes.

It was perhaps the most richly and subtly detailed panel I’d ever seen. Across some 60 feet of arching sandstone, vivid back-to-back figures were rendered in several colors, including two shades of red. Most of the figures were anthropomorphic, or human-shaped, and the largest was six feet tall

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:11 am

The new rock engravings are also yet to be fully studied, but the preliminary work indicates the site, whose location is being kept secret, is the richest of its kind in the greater Blue Mountains and may be one of the most important in the country. It is also just plain mysterious, with eagle-people and a particularly strange human figure reaching out to a wombat. Most are at least life size, and some so big the scientists say they will need to bring back ladders if they are to get a perspective on them.

Found this when I followed a link from one of the articles on the newspage today
http://www.smh.com.au/news/science/the- ... 32550.html
Seems there is a lot more rock art to be found still.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:38 am

Seems there is a lot more rock art to be found still.

I couldn't agree more - from all times and all places. It's like looking at archaeology first hand, written by the people who lived it.

As more is posted here we will have quite a collection.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:40 pm

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Dear, you really need to GET WELL SOON.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:00 pm

Beagle wrote:
Doodle doodle dee, wubba wubba wubba.
Dear, you really need to GET WELL SOON.

She seems fine to me.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:31 pm

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1764901.htm

Aboriginal rock art and artefacts that are thousands of years old have been discovered by a group of Queensland researchers.

The discovery was made in the Wollemi National Park, 100 kilometres north-west of Sydney in New South Wales, by a team from Griffith University.

The relics include an axe from the Stone Age and the researchers say some of the items are more than 4,000 years old.

Professor Paul Tacon says it is a major archaeological find.

From Archaeologica news - thanks Michelle.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:46 am

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

Combinig rock art & genetics.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:24 am

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/22/sa ... rss_latest

CLANWILLIAM, South Africa (Reuters) -- In the caves of South Africa's Cederberg mountains, an ancient people left a legacy of rock art that could teach modern man a valuable lesson or two about living in harmony with nature.

Hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving!

stan · Post by **stan** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:50 am

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

Combinig rock art & genetics.
Back to top

Thanks, Bruce. I think I posted this about a year ago. If the rest of you haven't looked at this, you owe it to yourself...it'll take some time to get through all the animations and features.

Starflower · Post by **Starflower** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 4:41 pm

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonia ... thispage=1

A Chinook shaman probably carved the bulbous eyes, protruding ribs and other mysterious features into the hefty boulder next to the Columbia River.

The big rock sat there, undisturbed, for at least 300 years.

But in the past 10 years, several houses have been built nearby. And one of the homeowners, city officials say, removed dense foliage and installed a crushed gravel path down to the boulder, encircling the egg-shaped rock. Nearby, two smaller boulders, also likely carved hundreds of years ago, have been jumbled into a modern-day fire pit.

I am appalled at how (hopefully)unintentionally destructive people can be. I'd like to say there ought to be a law... but there already is one. Hope they enjoyed that barbecue they defaced the art for.

It just makes me want to cry

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:07 pm

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 112906.php

When Coulson entered the cave this summer with her three master’s students, it struck them that the mysterious rock resembled the head of a huge python. On the six meter long by two meter tall rock, they found three-to-four hundred indentations that could only have been man-made.

From archaeolgica news

stan · Post by **stan** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:13 pm

That's one scary-looking rock!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:36 pm

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti ... wsid=64157

On the shores of Lake Bafa in southwest Turkey, prehistoric rock paintings found on Mt. Latmos in the Five Fingers Mountains have been classified as unique anthropological works because of their use of language and social themes.

Archaeologist Annelise Peschlow has been conducting a survey of the area, the ancient city of Miletusare, since 1974 as part of the Latmos Project to find early traces of human settlements in the area. The city's evolution extended from prehistoric times to the Ottoman era. She found the first rock paintings in 1994.

This rock art dates from about 6,000 BC.

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