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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?

Updates to our public rock art sites

by Stephen Alvarez|October 27, 2022October 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.

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.

Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian. The Precontact Native American Cultures of Southeastern United States

by Gregory Crouch|March 23, 2022April 5, 2022|age, Alabama, Archaic, cave art, geoglyph, Mississippian, Modern, Native American, North America, Painting, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Woodland

Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian the pre contact Native American Cultures of the Southeastern US.

Blythe Intaglios, Geoglyphs of the Lower Colorado River

by Stephen Alvarez|February 16, 2022December 19, 2023|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.

New Age of the Cerne Abbas Giant Geoglyph

by Stephen Alvarez|August 8, 2021January 21, 2022|age, geoglyph, news, Rock Art

An article in Sapiens lists the age for the Cerne Abbas Giant geoglyph in Dorset, England. The 180 foot long image is now thought to have been made between AD 700 and AD 1100 -the early medieval period. There are 30 or more chalk geoglyphs in Southern England, no word on their age.