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Visited a couple of excellent local #petroglyph panels this morning.

A panel of many petroglyphs scratched into a flat basalt wall, including Kokopellis, quadrupeds, hands, humanoids, birds and one huge maybe-scorpion.

A panel of many petroglyphs scratched into a basalt surface, including concentric circles, birds, and horned serpents.

I cleaned up some damage to this scene before I printed and hung it on my wall. I like the three happy sheep, the anthro with its necklace and quirky face, and the crescent moon. Ancestral Puebloan.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Petroglyph #Utah #Desert #AncientArt #Art

Three pecked forms next to the head of an anthropomorphic form. Above them is a small crescent and at the top of the scene is a crescent moon.

Ancestral Puebloan handprints and an anthropomorphic form, ~700+ years old. Navajo Nation, Arizona.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Petroglyph #Arizona #Ancient Art #Art

Stamped yellow, blue, gold, and red handprints on a light red sandstone wall. I small white anthropomorphic figure with a crescent headdress is among them.

The Archaic period Snake-in-Mouth rock art panel, believed to be at least 1,500 years old. The form on the hand is possibly a bird, on the left rain falls from a cloud. Note the three snakes. Calcium Carbonate has flowed down on the right side covering part of the panel. The blue-green pigment is unusual in Barrier Canon Style rock art and there may have been one or more other pigments that have faded away.

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

A nearly life-sized red anthropomorphic figure hold a bird on his hand. Within its wide-open mouth is a snake done in blue-green pigment. Its eyes are blue and a large snake on his left has blue pigment near its head. All forms are in red otherwise. Above the main figure to the left is a large cloud-like form that appears to have rain falling from it. Below the snake on the left is a possible anthropomorphic form and three long vertical lines. On the right, by the hand and bird, is a wavy snake heading upwards. To the right of that is white carbonate that has covered the remaining forms.

Симпатичная трехметровая киска в окрестностях Аксума. Точной датировки нет; возможно четвёртый век н.э.

07.11.2025
Lioness of Gobedra, Ethiopia

#ethiopia #gobedra #rockart
#petroglyphs #petroglyph #lion #lioness #archeology #prehistoric

Decades ago someone gave me a topo map of the Dollhouse area in Canyonlands with a slew of Barrier Canyon Style rock art sites shown. Sadly, most panels were faded with this one being the best in the area. Looking closely one can still make out embellishments on the heads and torsos. Most interesting to me are the zoomorphic lizard-like "familiars" at the bottom left of each anthropomorph. It's common to see familiars in BCS rock art but for each form to have an identical one is unusual.

#Archaeology #RockArt #Pictograph #Petroglyph #Utah #Desert #Hiking #Canyonlands

Eight faded red human-like forms, four on the left roughly life-sized, the others half as large. Lizard-like forms standing on their hind legs to the left of each form.

Time for #Arizona saber-toothed #cat #petroglyph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNI9mIAtVT0

The Rochester panel is a favorite of many for the numerous and exceptionally imaginative forms on it. Per Sally J. Cole, Legacy on Stone, Boulder, CO, 2009, p. 77, "Petroglyphs attributed to Archaic (Barrier Canyon Style), Fremont, and protohistoric/historic Ute groups." A section I love is the upper left with the lizards, bear, and the "bird in a swing" (my description). The rainbow is likely Fremont. The areas in white are where collectors took away part of the panel, note the section in the middle where someone tried to cut out a zoomorph.

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A close up view of a section of the panel shows forms near the upper left part of the "rainbow" which was created by pecking eight long lines. Figures include an owl, footprints, a two-headed zoomorph, a snake, a zoomorph walking on very long legs, a ghost-like form with a face with a vertical and horizontal line, and various other forms.

A large and busy petroglyph panel with a five foot high "rainbow" and many unusual zoomorphic and anthropomorphic forms.

Abstract geometric designs and thin Glen Canyon Style 5 anthropomorphic figures adorn this rock, which rolled 90 degrees after the original art was created. (Photo rotated 90 degrees to show original orientation.) The small anthropomorphic forms on the upper left, featuring bird heads and pendant circle forms, are Ancestral Puebloan and were created after the rock tipped over. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah.

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

Numerous pecked Abstract geometric forms, lines of dots, circles within circles, non-linear lines, many quite faded, are shown on this rock art panel. Seeming to have been created on top of the geometric art are several well-defined thin human-like forms in the Glen Canyon Style 5 manner. On the upper far left, rotated 90 degrees clockwise, are small anthropomorphic figures with duck-like heads, common to see in the are. Also shown are a couple of the mysterious circle pendant forms that have a light bulb shape.

Ancestral Puebloan anthropomorphic figures adorned with headdresses, earrings, and necklaces. Some pigment has likely faded after 800 years of exposure to sun and rain. The central figure is approximately 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall. Navajo Nation, Arizona.

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

Three anthropomorphic forms with arms extended and arms hanging down at the elbows, a common theme in the art of this area. Two figures on the left are in dark blue, or black, pigment and exhibit male genitalia. The one of the left has red earrings and white "hair" at the top of the head. The middle figure wears white earrings and has white feathers extending up from the head. The one on the right is white with red hands, red earrings, and red feathers.

The Wolfman panel. "...Anthropomorphs, possible staffs or wands, paw print motifs (canine), wading birds, twined bags with horizontal stripes and carrying loops, and pendant circle forms...", Sally J. Cole, Legacy on Stone, Boulder, CO, 2009, p. 127. The "pendant circle forms" are common to see on panels in the region but no one seems to know what they represent. Ancestral Puebloan, Utah.

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

Finely pecked rock art images on a dark brown cliff wall. Anthropomorph in middle is roughly 4' / 1.2 m tall.

Well preserved Ancestral Puebloan dwellings, note the fire stain on the ceiling and the white handprints. On the flat rock are pottery shards hikers have placed for viewing. Bears Ears, Utah.

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

Two stone and mud dwellings with a small door opening on the left. A rock leaning in from right provides shelter. Four white handprints are on this rock, possibly more. On far right is a sqaure flat rock the size of a kitchen table that has about thirty pottery shards, a couple of corncobs, and possibly cutting stones.

A few dozen pottery shards, a couple of small corncobs, and some small possibly cutting stones.

The Five Faces rock art panel in eastern Canyonlands. This is one of a series of "Faces Motif" panels found throughout the area. Ancestral Puebloan, Utah.

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

Five faces with torsos painted in red and white pigment onto a cliff wall.

"Peñico": Arqueólogos descobrem cidade pré-histórica de 3.500 anos no Peru

"Centro urbano foi fundado entre 1.800 a 1.500 a.C e está localizado ao norte da província de Barranca

O centro urbani de Peñico provavelmente serviu como um centro comercial ligando as culturas da costa do Peru com as dos Andes e da Amazônia.

Segundo especialistas, a cidade foi construída na mesma época das primeiras civilizações do Oriente Médio e da Ásia.

Imagens de drones divulgadas pelos pesquisadores mostram que o centro da cidade é marcado por uma estrutura circular em um terraço na encosta.

Restos de edifícios de pedra também podem ser vistos no registro da cidade, construída a 600 metros acima do nível do mar.

Localização estratégica
O centro urbano foi fundado entre 1.800 e 1.500 A.C e fica próximo ao local onde a civilização Caral, a mais antiga das Américas, se desenvolveu há 5 mil anos.

Caral, composta por 32 estruturas monumentais, é considerada contemporânea das civilizações do Egito, Índia, Suméria e China.

No entanto, ao contrário delas, desenvolveu-se em completo isolamento, de acordo com os pesquisadores.

Ruth Shady, arqueóloga que liderou a pesquisa em Peñico, disse que a cidade recém-descoberta é fundamental porque os especialistas acreditam que ela surgiu depois que a civilização Caral foi devastada pela mudança climática.

"Eles estavam situados em um local estratégico para o comércio, para o intercâmbio com sociedades do litoral, das terras altas e da selva", disse Shady.

O arqueólogo Marco Machacuay, pesquisador do Ministério da Cultura, disse em uma coletiva de imprensa que a importância de Peñico reside no fato de ser a continuação da sociedade Caral."

Leia mais e veja o video:
https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internacional/penico-arqueologos-descobrem-cidade-pre-historica-de-3-500-anos-no-peru
#peru #penico #ancient #ancienthistory #arqueologia #archeology #archaeologicalsites #rockart #petroglyph #southamerica #americadosul

Arqueólogos descobrem mural pré-hispânico de 3 mil anos em sítio arqueológico no Peru, ameaçado pela expansão agrícola

https://olhardigital.com.br/2025/08/31/ciencia-e-espaco/tesouro-arqueologico-unico-de-3-mil-anos-e-encontrado-no-peru-sob-risco-de-destruicao/?utm_source=pixelfed&utm_medium=activitypub

#peru #huacayolanda #ancient #ancienthistory #arqueologia #archeology #archaeologicalsites #rockart #petroglyph

12,000-year-old ratnagiri petroglyph resembles comic character

This ancient figure wears a helmet, four hands, and a circular logo on his chest, appearing to be doing powerlifting. 💪

It survived more than 12000 years before locals excavated it. Now it is on the mercy of visitors, weather and our sarkari departments. I urge locals to cover it again. 🙏
#Ratnagiri #Petroglyph #Archaeology