#petroglyphs — Public Fediverse posts
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Equality #HumanRights
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Equality #HumanRights
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Equality #HumanRights
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Equality #HumanRights
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertGreenIngersoll #Equality #HumanRights
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Myths are the maps by which cultures navigate through time.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonaldWright #Myth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Myths are the maps by which cultures navigate through time.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonaldWright #Myth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Myths are the maps by which cultures navigate through time.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonaldWright #Myth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Myths are the maps by which cultures navigate through time.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonaldWright #Myth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Myths are the maps by which cultures navigate through time.
-- Ronald Wright (A Short History of Progress)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RonaldWright #Myth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #DoingGood
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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‘Petroglyph Enhancement’ with Ken Jones (RIP) discussing one of the Photoshop techniques he used to dissect ghost signs and identify content and layers that are invisible to the naked eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcmURnKlX2w
PS. Here are some posts featuring Ken Jones and his work on the Ghostsigns site: https://ghostsigns.co.uk/tag/ken-jones/
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Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert Heinlein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertHeinlein #Happiness #Love
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Grey Cairn carving, Kirkmichael, Perthshire #petroglyphs #RockArt #TheNorthernAntiquarian #RosaCamuna https://www.thenorthernantiquarian.org/tag/rock-art/page/9/
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#1359 Stan Beckensall - British Prehistoric Rock Art. Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud, 1999, 1st edition.
#StanBeckensall #TempusPublishing #RockArt #Petroglyphs #Prehistory #BookOfTheDay
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The eroded grooves of these carved quadrupeds hold the weight of centuries, their outlines softened yet stubborn. Such petroglyphs suggest a language of survival, not decoration—what might their repetition reveal about the hands that traced them?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Petroglyphs #AncientArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.11.d -
And on top of everything else...! 😠
#Epstein had #petroglyphs moved for décor at #ZorroRanch, federal records show
By Clara Bates, Mar 3, 2026
"Over the years at Zorro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein instructed his staff multiple times to move petroglyphs estimated to be hundreds of years old for the purpose of decoration, U.S. Justice Department emails and photos released in January show.
" 'Petroglyph rocks moved to the main house,' a Zorro property manager wrote in a 2001 project memo emailed to Epstein, noting 'JE to let us know the size, location and how many rocks he would like.'
" 'Jeff to find larger rocks,' the manager wrote a few days later.
"In a 2014 email to former Microsoft executive and paleontological researcher Nathan Myhrvold, Epstein asked, 'how do i cut and polish … the granite with petroglyphs on the ranch?'
"Myhrvold didn't respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
"When the ranch manager was designing planter beds the following year and asked Epstein whether he would be OK with rocks in one section, Epstein responded with a request: 'yes„ nice it would be great to get some big ones with petroglyphs even better.' (The email quotes in this story are verbatim, including typos.)
"The following year, Epstein requested 'large petroglyphs' be included in another outside design.
" 'The destruction and removal of petroglyphs and #CulturalSites at Zorro Ranch is deeply troubling, yet not surprising considering what has come to light about Jeffrey Epstein,' #JoeySanchez, chair of the All Pueblo Council of Governors, said in a statement. 'These sites hold profound significance as part of the living history of the #Pueblos across the Southwest, reflecting the enduring connection between our people and the land."
Read more:
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/epstein-had-petroglyphs-moved-for-d-cor-at-zorro-ranch-federal-records-show/article_6b1ce0e6-4b56-4df5-b869-986ef2a5e0a7.html#EpsteinClass #EpsteinCrimes #USPol #CulturalErasure #ProtectTheSacred #Desecration
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Horace #Communication #Discretion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.
Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-national-monument-archaeology-video
#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.
Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-national-monument-archaeology-video
#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video
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#Murujuga 50,000 year old & largest #rockart site in the world with 2 million #petroglyphs / rock engravings spread across the #Burrup Peninsula, part of the Dampier Archipelago in WA’s #Pilbara region. These include long-extinct megafauna, marine mammals and archaic faces - the oldest known depictions of the human face on earth.
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.
Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-national-monument-archaeology-video
#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🏛️⛰️ Archaeologists Jonathan Till and Nate Thomas take a tour of protected archaeological sites across #Utah's #BearsEars National Monument.
Historic co-management by five #NativeAmerican Tribes preserves ancestral homelands and #ecosystems, including rock engravings at #NewspaperRock that span thousands of years.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/bears-ears-national-monument-archaeology-video
#americanhistory #history #archaeology #art #communication #conservation #culture #drawings #hiking #indigenouspeoples #monuments #museums #northamerica #petroglyphs #rocks #sandstone #tksst #video
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Dating Petroglyphs Using Measurements of Manganese Accumulation in Rock Varnish [pdf 15pp] #RockArt #petroglyphs https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/b932244972f51020d9515071205907c2/download_pub
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Bronze Age boat carvings reveal vast sea networks linking Iberia and Scandinavia
Bronze Age boat carvings found on rocks in Spain and Portugal suggest people living along Europe’s Atlantic coast shared ideas, technology, and beliefs across long sea routes more than 3,000 years ago...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/boat-carvings-sea-networks-iberia-scandinavia/
Follow @archaeology
#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #bronzeage #petroglyphs
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-- Franz Kafka⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FranzKafka #Beauty #Truth
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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A poet who knows what it is he wants to say may be sure it's been said already.
-- Hugh Kenner⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HughKenner #Creativity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power -- it's time.
-- David Crosby⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidCrosby #Time
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.
-- Hippocrates⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Hippocrates #Food #Health
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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Polls are contributing to a strange new volatility in public opinion... [They have] the effect of hardening opinions that haven't even been formed yet. Poll questions do not invite subtlety or response. This dispels ambiguity, when a lot of thoughts and opinions are ambiguous. And we are polled too often. We are constantly having our temperature taken, like a hypochondriac... Nations that use polls as daily temperature readings inevitably give inauthentic readings, and wind up not reassured but demoralized.
-- Peggy Noonan⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PeggyNoonan #Politics #Polls
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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This one is old and therefor a bit hard to see from certain angles. I can say it is old because it has brown desert varnish developing on it--and that process takes hundreds of years. I think the older #Petroglyphs in this area have been dated to ~800 years ago.
That said it is spectacular! It shows a humanoid form with a great winged headdress or helmet.
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#NineMileCanyon #Fake / Modern #Petroglyphs
I find this one artistic, a bit too artistic to be real.
I think it is a recent fake unless someone knows it is old?
Criteria: Found isolated from other art, bright/fresh appearance, stylistically different from known examples that are 100s of years old.
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#NineMileCanyon #Utah #Petroglyphs #RockArt
I like the feeling of "action" in this close-up view!
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More #NineMileCanyon #Petroglyphs
These two little horned figures appear to be dancing! 🕺 💃
https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html
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Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
- Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
- Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
- Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
- DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
#Altamira #AncientArt #Anthropology #Archaeology #ArtHistory #CaveArt #CavePainting #ChauvetCave #GwionGwion #HandsOnHistory #HumanEvolution #Lascaux #PaleoArt #Paleolithic #ParietalArt #Petroglyphs #PrehistoricArt #Prehistory #RockArt #RockArtResearch #StoneAge #SulawesiRockArt #UNESCOWorldHeritage #UpperPaleolithic
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
-- Kontra (@counternotions)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Kontra #Data #Experts #Judgement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
