cave art

Rock Art: What are Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs?

by ancientartarch|November 19, 2024November 19, 2024|age, California, cave art, Chauvet, Emery County, France, geoglyph, Native American, North America, Painting, Paleolithic, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Uncategorized, Utah

Rock Art: Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs. Three techniques are used by the world's first artists. What do those terms mean and what does the art look like?

Patagonia Cave Art: A Pictograph Seen Across 3000 Years

by Stephen Alvarez|February 16, 2024February 17, 2024|age, cave art, Painting, pictograph, Rock Art

A new paper in Science Advances suggests that a single pictograph motif persists across 130 human generations at a site in Argentina

Growing evidence of Neanderthal “Art”

by Stephen Alvarez|June 23, 2023June 23, 2023|age, cave art, Europe, France, petroglyph

Claims that other species besides Homo Sapiens made art or used "symbolic behavior" have been met with skepticism. But evidence that Neanderthals did produce symbols keeps growing. In a paper published this week in the Journal PLOS One,

Chauvet Pont d’Arc the discovery of 36,000-year-old art

Upper Paleolithic Proto Writing

by ancientartarch|January 5, 2023January 5, 2023|Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Painting, Uncategorized

We know that ancient artists were exacting observers of the natural world. But it is mind bending that they may have had a written time keeping system 20,000 years ago.

A Dark Pathway book review

by Stephen Alvarez|December 2, 2022December 2, 2022|cave art, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Uncategorized

Founding board member emeritus Dr Jan Simek has a new book about cave art in the Southeastern United States. Dr David Whitley gives us a detailed review. A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs from 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee, by Jan F. Simek. 2022. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. xviii+195 pp., 85 b&w and 19 color figures, 14 tables, bibliography, index. ISBN 9781621907176, hardcover. By David S. Whitley Rock Art Research Institute University of the Witwatersrand “Mud glyph” and “1st Unnamed Cave” are not particularly inspiring terms that, at first glance, might promote reading this book. Yet these very earthy, workman-like words in the sub-title exactly belie the careful, compelling and in fact exciting study detailed in this volume. Anyone interested in the Native American symbolic and spiritual world will benefit from and enjoy this book; it should be required reading for those concerned with the indigenous southeastern US...

Persistence of Place

by Stephen Alvarez|August 5, 2022August 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.

Cave Art Images from New Zealand

by Stephen Alvarez|June 6, 2022June 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.