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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Horace #Communication #Discretion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Horace #Communication #Discretion

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/unesco-world-heritage-murujuga-rock-art-meaning/105453930

#Burrup #FirstNations #fossilfuels #Murujuga #Petroglyphs #RockArt

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/unesco-world-heritage-murujuga-rock-art-meaning/105453930

#Burrup #FirstNations #fossilfuels #Murujuga #Petroglyphs #RockArt

#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.

https://www.fara.com.au/

#climatecrisis #fossilfuels

#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.

https://www.fara.com.au/

#climatecrisis #fossilfuels

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

Dating Petroglyphs Using Measurements of Manganese Accumulation in Rock Varnish [pdf 15pp] #RockArt #petroglyphs https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/b932244972f51020d9515071205907c2/download_pub

Dating Petroglyphs Using Measurements of Manganese Accumulation in Rock Varnish [pdf 15pp] #RockArt #petroglyphs https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/b932244972f51020d9515071205907c2/download_pub

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/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #bronzeage #petroglyphs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.
-- Hippocrates

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Hippocrates #Food #Health

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food.
-- Hippocrates

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Hippocrates #Food #Health

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

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

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

#NineMileCanyon #RockArt

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.

#NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon #RockArt

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.

#NaturePhotography

#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.

#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.

#NineMileCanyon #Utah #Petroglyphs #RockArt

I like the feeling of "action" in this close-up view!

#NineMileCanyon #Utah #Petroglyphs #RockArt

I like the feeling of "action" in this close-up view!

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

#RockArt #NaturePhotography

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

#RockArt #NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon #Utah

There was an iconic "Oval Man" figure I'd never seen before repeated in several places.

The most elaborate version was on this magnificent panel. There are sheep, stars, what I think are water/rain symbols, and two human figures that appear to be holding something above their heads. Wow!

#RockArt #Petroglyphs #NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon #Utah

There was an iconic "Oval Man" figure I'd never seen before repeated in several places.

The most elaborate version was on this magnificent panel. There are sheep, stars, what I think are water/rain symbols, and two human figures that appear to be holding something above their heads. Wow!

#RockArt #Petroglyphs #NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon "Coyote Placing the Stars" #Petroglyphs

Coyote Placing the Stars covers several vertical surfaes about 100 ft up from the roadway. This is the only #NorthAmerican #RockArt I'm aware of with a direct link to popular #NativeAmerican folklore. There are several versions of this story. Signs at the site indicated the stars fell down and #Coyote placed them back in the sky. Another version says he only re-arranged the stars, placing them into constellations representing his fellow animals.

Note the anthropomorphic figure with a dog shaped head. Also note the grids of small circles representing fields of stars.

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#History #NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon "Coyote Placing the Stars" #Petroglyphs

Coyote Placing the Stars covers several vertical surfaes about 100 ft up from the roadway. This is the only #NorthAmerican #RockArt I'm aware of with a direct link to popular #NativeAmerican folklore. There are several versions of this story. Signs at the site indicated the stars fell down and #Coyote placed them back in the sky. Another version says he only re-arranged the stars, placing them into constellations representing his fellow animals.

Note the anthropomorphic figure with a dog shaped head. Also note the grids of small circles representing fields of stars.

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#History #NaturePhotography

More #Petroglyphs from #NineMileCanyon #Utah

This is a panel high up on the cliff face. There are several big horn sheep, a centipede, fields of stars, and a human figure.

#RockArt #NaturePhotography

More #Petroglyphs from #NineMileCanyon #Utah

This is a panel high up on the cliff face. There are several big horn sheep, a centipede, fields of stars, and a human figure.

#RockArt #NaturePhotography

#NineMileCanyon #Petroglyphs

Complex panel about 30 ft above us.

Very interesting figures on the left, and right bottom.

#RockArt #History #NaturePhotography

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#NineMileCanyon #Petroglyphs

Complex panel about 30 ft above us.

Very interesting figures on the left, and right bottom.

#RockArt #History #NaturePhotography

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#NineMileCanyon #Petroglyphs

Barely visible line of Big Horn Sheep

Like ghosts from the past!

#NineMileCanyon #Petroglyphs

Barely visible line of Big Horn Sheep

Like ghosts from the past!

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Starting a new thread with photos from #NineMileCanyon in #Utah.

This is one of the most concentrated collections of #RockArt in the US. Mostly pecked #Petroglyphs that are from 800 to 200 years old, with a few red painted #Pictographs mixed in.

Note there is a new problem with #vandalism to these important artifacts. 🙁 Everyone should work to protect them!

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#History #NaturePhotography

Starting a new thread with photos from #NineMileCanyon in #Utah.

This is one of the most concentrated collections of #RockArt in the US. Mostly pecked #Petroglyphs that are from 800 to 200 years old, with a few red painted #Pictographs mixed in.

Note there is a new problem with #vandalism to these important artifacts. 🙁 Everyone should work to protect them!

https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html

#History #NaturePhotography

#PetrifiedForest #Petroglyphs 3

#Ibis Catching a Frog?

Or a "giant bird that eats bad children" ?!

#RockArt #NaturePhotography

#PetrifiedForest #Petroglyphs 3

#Ibis Catching a Frog?

Or a "giant bird that eats bad children" ?!

#RockArt #NaturePhotography