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Rock Eagle Effigy Mound
Updates to our public rock art sites
by Stephen Alvarez|October 27, 2022|geoglyph, news, Rock Art
Looking for a weekend rock art get away? We've made some updates to our public rock art sites interactive map. All the sites on the list are actively managed for public visitation. Changes include a new site Rock Hawk, direction maps to Rock Eagle and Serpent Mound, better access to embedded VR models in Chauvet, Mt Irish and The Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon.
Snake Tailed Cat Petroglyph
Persistence of Place
by Stephen Alvarez|August 5, 2022|cave art, geoglyph, Mural of America, petroglyph, Rock Art
Some places become important to humans and remain so across thousands of years and multiple cultures.
San Juan County Petroglyphs
Southern Utah Petroglyph Boulders
by Stephen Alvarez|July 11, 2022|Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, San Juan County, Utah, Virtual Reality
We have loaded a VR model of petroglyph boulders in Utah optimized for the Oculus headset.
Maori cave painting
Cave Art Images from New Zealand
by Stephen Alvarez|June 6, 2022|cave art, Painting, pictograph, Rock Art
New Zealand is one of the last major land masses to be explored and permanently settled by human beings. Max Wisshak has added his photographs of those explorers artwork to the Ancient Art Archvie.
Maya writing in Naj Tunich Cave
Naj Tunich Cave Maya pictographs
by Stephen Alvarez|April 11, 2022|2000 BP, age, cave art, Maya, Painting, pictograph, Rock Art
The Maya pictographs in Naj Tunich Cave rocked the world of Maya archaeology when they were discovered.
Esplanade Polychrome style
by Stephen Alvarez|April 2, 2022|age, Archaic, Arizona, Esplanade Polychrome, Mojave County, Native American, Rock Art Styles
Esplanade Polychrome style is known from only a handful of rock art sites in Mojave County Arizona.
Blythe Intaglios Geoglyphs
Blythe Intaglios, Geoglyphs of the Lower Colorado River
by Stephen Alvarez|February 16, 2022|Arizona, California, geoglyph, Native American, North America, Rock Art
The Blythe Intaglios are so large they can be seen from space. However, they were only noticed by non Native Americans in the 1930.
Paenl of the Four Horses
Panel of the Four Horses, Chauvet in VR
by Stephen Alvarez|February 11, 2022|age, Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Paleolithic, pictograph, Rock Art, Virtual Reality
The panel of the Four Horses in Chauvet Pont d'Arc cave is now online in VR
Rock Art in Texas Defaced
by Stephen Alvarez|January 17, 2022|news, petroglyph, Rock Art
Late last year vandals irreparably damaged a rock art petroglyph panel in Big Bend National Park. 2021 was a hard year for United States rock art with major instances of vandalism reported in Utah (here, here) and now closing the year in Texas. Anyone with information about the incident in Texas should contact the Big Bend National Park Communication Center at 432-477-1187. Detailed view of vandalism in Big Bend National Park, Texas photo via NPS The National Park Service reports that there have been over 50 instances of vandalism to rock art in Big Bend since 2015. Read more at Art News (here) and Texas Monthly (here). At the Ancient Art Archive, we believe that the only long-term solution to vandalism is education. We must build a long term and wide spread appreciation for the images our predecessors left written on the landscape. To that end we have built education...
What does it take to understand cave art?
by Stephen Alvarez|January 10, 2022|20000, age, cave art, petroglyph, Rock Art, Spain
a glimpse into the mind of the paleolithic artist