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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.

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

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.

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

Doodle doodle dee, wubba wubba wubba.

Beagle wrote:

Doodle doodle dee, wubba wubba wubba.

Dear, you really need to GET WELL SOON.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.