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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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are the Serranía de la Lindosa paintings 12,000 years old?

by ancientartarch|March 8, 2022June 25, 2023|age, news, Painting, Paleolithic, pictograph, Rock Art

Are the Serrania de la Lindosa Colombia paintings 12,000 years old? They could be but why are they so well preserved?

Altamira Cave, Spain

by Stephen Alvarez|April 2, 2021April 2, 2022|1400BP, Altamira, cave art, Europe, How Old Is It?, Magdalenian, Painting, Paleolithic, pictograph, Rock Art, Spain, Virtual Reality

Altamira cave is Spain is one of the most pristine examples of paleolithic cave art, but the pictographs discovery is rooted in controversy

Chauvet Cave the discovery of 36,000-year-old art

by Gregory Crouch|March 14, 2021May 6, 2024|36000 BP, age, Aurignacian, cave art, Chauvet, Europe, France, Painting, Paleolithic, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art

almost 30 years ago explorers forced their way into Chauvet cave in France, what they found astounded the world.