Rock Art

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.

Southern Utah Petroglyph Boulders

by Stephen Alvarez|July 11, 2022July 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.

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.

Modern Ancient Art

by Genevive Zacconi|May 26, 2022May 26, 2022|age, Altamira, Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Gravettian, Magdalenian, Painting, Paleolithic, Rock Art, Spain

Modern art concepts like cubism have their origins in the oldest artworks on the planet. Our brains are hard wired for abstraction.

Stephen Alvarez works in an unnamed cave

Native American Cave Art Over 1000-Years-Old Revealed by 3D Scans

by Gregory Crouch|May 3, 2022April 3, 2023|age, cave art, Native American, news, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, unnamed cave, Woodland

Giant Cave Art images discovered using 3D modeling. This expands our knowledge of the Woodland Culture world view.

Naj Tunich Cave Maya pictographs

by Stephen Alvarez|April 11, 2022April 12, 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.

Indigenous Cave Explorers of the Southeastern US

by Gregory Crouch|April 3, 2022April 15, 2022|cave art, Mississippian, Mural of America, Native American, North America, petroglyph, Rock Art, Uncategorized, unnamed cave, Woodland

Indisputable evidence proves Indigenous Americans ventured as far as 3 miles into southeastern caves 5,000 years before the invention of electric light. Native Americans were excellent cave explorers.