Around 1980, archaeologist Steven J. Manning did a rubbing of this complex but faded Fremont painting, preserving the fine detail (F.A. Barnes, Prehistoric Rock Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 1982, p. 159). The pecked snake, the three birds in the center, and the "rainbow" are figures also seen in the Barrier Canyon Style, and the glyph over the rainbow looks Abstract Geometric, suggesting multi-cultural sharing.
#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Pictographs #Petroglyph #Petroglyphs #Utah #Desert
This exceptional Barrier Canyon Style painting (~2000 BCE or earlier - ~400 CE) is being covered up by calcium carbonate. Most BCS anthropomorphic forms are missing arms or legs as if wearing a robe but these forms even have fingers. The companion birds and snakes are a common feature of this style. Note the birds around the headdress. These forms have been pecked on, possibly by others, more on this to follow.
#RockArt #Petroglyph #Utah #Desert #Archaeology #Pictograph #Utah #painting
Western San Juan Basketmaker-style anthropomorphic forms along the San Juan river (~1,000 BCE - ~400 CE). Forms are roughly life-size. The figure on the right may be wearing a mask. Some of those who see these forms as shamanic theorize the hanging feet represent an altered state. Raft trips out of Bluff, Utah stop at this panel.
These nearly life-size Fremont Style (~300 CE - ~1300 CE) anthropomorphic forms in Moab, Utah appear to hold shields and spears. The Fremont lived mostly north of the Colorado river and appear to have sometimes overlapped and interacted with the Ancestral Puebloan people to the south.
#rockart #petroglyph #Utah #desert #moab #archaelogy #fremont #ancestralpuebloan #pjwoods
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Looks like decent reduction of the cobalt? or copper? flash.
Some #raku #glaze formulas here:
https://jqjacobs.net/art/glazes3.html
This #porcelain plate hangs on my office wall. The design depicts an #Arizona #petroglyph. Fired at Mesa CC #ceramics studio.
Keep working, raku is a lot of fun.
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This section of a tall red orange rock cliff wall has petroglyph carvings of some animals. Part of the wall has broken away.
https://5-jennifer-white.pixels.com/featured/potash-animal-petroglyphs-jennifer-white.html
#buyinotart #photography #prehistoric #petroglyph
#nature #petroglyph a small detail of a bigger pictograph birds flying over the canyons
Europe’s highest petroglyphs unearthed in Lombardy’s mountains
An extraordinary archaeological discovery in Lombardy’s Stelvio National Park in Italy has revealed the highest rock engravings in Europe, etched into the glacier-polished rocks of Pizzo Tresero. These petroglyphs, located more than 3,000 meters above sea level...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2024/11/europes-highest-petroglyphs-unearthed-in-lombardys-mountains/
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#Echidna #petroglyph, 90cm
from the 'Echidna and Fish' site at West Head in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
via Australian Museum: https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/australian-archaeology/indigenous-rock-engraving-of-an-echidna/
![“Engraved on a horizontal Hawkesbury sandstone platform, [the echidna] has 12 infill lines from head to tail representing the echidna's quills. The photograph was taken in the late afternoon when the sun's slanting rays throw the grooves into relief. The pale greenish-coloured spots are lichen growing on the sandstone.” “It is difficult to date the echidna engraving using current scientific techniques, particularly as there is no soil covering it. Dating is also difficult because re-grooving sometimes occurs during later ceremonies. However the style of the drawing, known as 'simple figurative', and its state of preservation suggests it was made in the last few thousand years. The simple figurative style is confined to the region.”](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/112/912/368/289/905/055/original/684887ac7be5f47d.png "“Engraved on a horizontal Hawkesbury sandstone platform, [the echidna] has 12 infill lines from head to tail representing the echidna's quills. The photograph was taken in the late afternoon when the sun's slanting rays throw the grooves into relief. The pale greenish-coloured spots are lichen growing on the sandstone.” “It is difficult to date the echidna engraving using current scientific techniques, particularly as there is no soil covering it. Dating is also difficult because re-grooving sometimes occurs during later ceremonies. However the style of the drawing, known as 'simple figurative', and its state of preservation suggests it was made in the last few thousand years. The simple figurative style is confined to the region.”")
Desert #fungi and #lichens pose deadly threat to 5,000-year-old rock art https://phys.org/news/2024-07-fungi-lichens-pose-deadly-threat.html
Diversity of fungi associated with #petroglyph sites in the #Negev Desert and their potential role in #bioweathering: Laura Rabbachin et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/fungal-biology/articles/10.3389/ffunb.2024.1400380/full
"#petroglyphs are home to a community of uncommon specialist fungi and lichens... They secrete acids that can dissolve the #limestone in which the petroglyphs are carved... and they can penetrate and grow within the stone grains"
Late Prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal [pdf 25pp] #RockArt #petroglyph #menhir #chalcolithic #BronzeAge #iberia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871101424000736
Happy summer #solstice!
It was cloudy all morning, so I didn't try going to see our local solstice sun dagger #petroglyph It's pretty cool, though; see my article from several years ago when I made a timelapse video.
https://shallowsky.com/blog/science/astro/solstice-sun-dagger.html
#NewMexico
Photographer - Barry B. Brown, aka @coralreefphotos on Instagram - "I went out on a quick #petroglyph run the other day at #lacienaga with the beautiful #fallcolor off in the distance."
We spent #opcOnThisDay in 2017 poking around the southern Utah, from the ruins of Hovenweep to a campsite at Natural Bridges—and finally stopped by this #rockart site in Butler Wash. #petroglyph #utah #bearsears #archaeology
