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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?

Paleolithic paintings in Cresswell Craigs, UK

by ancientartarch|June 28, 2024June 28, 2024|Europe, Paleolithic

https://youtu.be/6njVt5X4WWo Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire is one of the most important Upper Paleolithic sites in the British Isles and has been the focus for archaeologists for over 170 years. In 2021, Research Fellow, Dr George Nash at the University of Liverpool explored the walls and ceilings of several caves within the Gorge, including Church Hole Cave and Robin Hood’s Cave. The results of this survey revealed several panels in Church Hole Cave that showed potential evidence of painted surfaces using a locally sourced red pigment. Read about his findings at the Bradshaw Foundation website (here).

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

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.

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.