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Rock climbers discovered this Barrier Canyon Style rock art panel in southeastern Utah decades ago (full panel not shown). Although exposed to the elements for over a 1,000 years the art is still vibrant. The central figure (~5 ft./1.5m tall) may be an animal with human legs and feet. Barrier Canyon Style art often features these human-animal mixes, which backs up the popular theory of shamanic correlations.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Petroglyph #Ancient #Art #Desert #Hiking #Utah

Four red painted figures with white embellishments on a tan cliff wall. Two forms are human like, one is animal like, and one is a long vertical zigzag red and white snake.

Punda Rock Art Site, Australia
Photo by René Riegal

Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-large-rock-with-a-tree-on-top-of-it-5mNsn5TDu4w
#australia #aboriginal #art #arte #ancient #outback #rockart #rock #wilderness #indigenousart #indigenous #pundarock #petroglyph #history

Oops, I missed posting about the #solstice yesterday. But here's a photo of our Los Alamos solstice sun dagger from a few years ago, when I made a timelapse of it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ireRhurr6ZA
and blogged about it
https://shallowsky.com/blog/science/astro/solstice-sun-dagger.html

#Petroglyph #NewMexico #astronomy

A petroglyph of six concentric circles with rays radiating out from the outermost circle, carved in a vertical, very flat wall of soft volcanic tuff. A triangular shadow is coming from above and right, covering part of the circle, with the tip of the triangle ending up exactly on the center of the circles.

I've seen coitus or birthing scenes, they're rare, but this is the first time I've seen them side-by-side like this. It makes clear the cause and effect. The wavy glyph on the right is much longer than it looks here, probably about ten times the length shown. Ancestral Puebloan, Southeastern Utah.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Petroglyph #Pictograph #Utah #Desert #Ancient #Art #Photography

Simple pecked figures with two figures embracing next to a single figure with legs spread and a baby figure between her legs. A lightly pecked serpentine form comes in from the right side and ends about the mother figure.

Seeing rock art I haven't seen before is always a highlight for me, so I was happy to finally see this one. Some archaeologist refer to this figure as a wading bird but it is generally known as the Crane Panel. Ancestral Puebloan, southeastern Utah, ~3 ft./1m tall.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Petroglyph #Pictograph #Ancient #Art #Photography

Pecked figure on brown sandstone of a standing bird with its wings spread and a circle within a circle beside it.

https://www.tumblr.com/dougfort/786326794843340800/petroglyph-from-the-ancient-ones-in-arlington-va?source=share #petroglyph

Around 1980, archaeologist Steven J. Manning did a rubbing of this complex but faded Fremont painting, preserving the fine detail (F.A. Barnes, Prehistoric Rock Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 1982, p. 159). The pecked snake, the three birds in the center, and the "rainbow" are figures also seen in the Barrier Canyon Style, and the glyph over the rainbow looks Abstract Geometric, suggesting multi-cultural sharing.
#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Pictographs #Petroglyph #Petroglyphs #Utah #Desert

Faded red rock art of anthropomorphs, zoomorphs, and various glyphs on sandstone cliff wall in upper half. Bottom half is black and white representation of the images in photograph above.

"These Barrier Canyon Style figures in Horseshoe Canyon, Utah had their faces and torsos pecked—even the dog (tallest form, ~12in/30cm). Besides modern vandalism, some rock art seems to have been ritually pecked, mudded, or scrubbed, not always prehistorically. In 1980, Moab's Courthouse Wash rock art paintings were scrubbed. One theory proposes later shamanic cultures did this to weaken the images' power."
#RockArt #Petroglyph #Desert #Archaeology #Ancient #Pictograph #Utah

A dog and three thin anthropomporphic figures painted in red on a sandstone wall.

This exceptional Barrier Canyon Style painting (~2000 BCE or earlier - ~400 CE) is being covered up by calcium carbonate. Most BCS anthropomorphic forms are missing arms or legs as if wearing a robe but these forms even have fingers. The companion birds and snakes are a common feature of this style. Note the birds around the headdress. These forms have been pecked on, possibly by others, more on this to follow.
#RockArt #Petroglyph #Utah #Desert #Archaeology #Pictograph #Utah #painting

Two human-like red painted forms on a yellow rock cliff wall, one holding a snake, birds fly around the heads of the forms.

Western San Juan Basketmaker-style anthropomorphic forms along the San Juan river (~1,000 BCE - ~400 CE). Forms are roughly life-size. The figure on the right may be wearing a mask. Some of those who see these forms as shamanic theorize the hanging feet represent an altered state. Raft trips out of Bluff, Utah stop at this panel.

#rockart #petroglyph #archaeology #ancestralpuebloan #desert #utah #desert #pjwoods

Six pecked human-like forms with large headdresses on a dark cliff wall, as well as other smaller forms.

These nearly life-size Fremont Style (~300 CE - ~1300 CE) anthropomorphic forms in Moab, Utah appear to hold shields and spears. The Fremont lived mostly north of the Colorado river and appear to have sometimes overlapped and interacted with the Ancestral Puebloan people to the south.
#rockart #petroglyph #Utah #desert #moab #archaelogy #fremont #ancestralpuebloan #pjwoods

Three pecked human-like forms with headdresses, shields, and spears.

One more set of Moab photos. Dinosaurs and petroglyphs.

#moab #dinosaur #petroglyph

I tried some star stacking with about 4 hours of shots, I wanted to match the spiral in the #petroglyph. #astrophotography #stars #startrails #southernutah #photography #night #darksky #deepsky #redrocks

Petroglyph, Tzintzuntzan, Mexico.

#petroglyph #tzintzuntzan #mexico #travel #ruins #ruinas

Vache marocaine (1600-1000 av J-C, 1600-1000 BC, 2600m alt.) #Maroc #Oukaimeden #petroglyphe #petroglyph #MinoltaSRT101 #SilentSunday #nature #archeology #minolta #Atlas #photography #photographie #berbere #ArtRupestre

Pétroglyphe représentant une vache sur un rocher ocre rouge. Image prise en 2007 à Oukaimeden dans la vallée.

#Petroglyph in White Rock Canyon. Is it a butterfly?

#hiking #NewMexico

A basalt rock with a collection of petroglyphs on its top surface. The main glyph might be a butterfly. You can also see a small spiral, and a sort of geometric pattern, plus newer think scratches added much more recently.

"Petroglyph." Oils, done in #Rebelle.

Dark blues and purples are my guilty pleasure.

I tossed this one up in my Redbubble shop if anyone's interested: LBHeuschkel.redbubble.com

#petroglyph #bronzeAge #art #oils #night

A large rock with a Bronze Age scandinavian sun ship petroglyph, on a black backdrop. Behind the rock, a purple bush or tree.

@gregmillerwrites
Looks like decent reduction of the cobalt? or copper? flash.
Some #raku #glaze formulas here:
https://jqjacobs.net/art/glazes3.html
This #porcelain plate hangs on my office wall. The design depicts an #Arizona #petroglyph. Fired at Mesa CC #ceramics studio.
Keep working, raku is a lot of fun.
#Pottery #art