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  1. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
    -- Albert Einstein

    #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertEinstein #Hope #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

  2. ‘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.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dcmURnKlX2w

    PS. Here are some posts featuring Ken Jones and his work on the Ghostsigns site: ghostsigns.co.uk/tag/ken-jones/

    #Ghostsigns #Petroglyphs #RockArt #Photoshop

  3. Earth's largest meteor crater became home to mysterious ancient carvings, suggesting the catastrophic impact may have transformed into a sacred place for early humans.
    #MeteorCrater #AncientMystery #Archaeology #LostHistory #RockArt
    Read more:ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  4. Rediscovered megalithic engravings in Slovakia: 3D reconstruction and comparative analysis of a forgotten Neolithic site [html, pdf 9pp] #megalithic #menhirs #RockArt doi.org/10.1038/s40494-026-023

  5. Murujuga petroglyphs - putting a "very rosy spin" on the scientific findings

    "Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on the rock art, before he granted the company an extension to keep operating there for another 40 years."

    "A top statistician says he quit a landmark study into whether heavy industry is damaging ancient rock art in Western Australia's north after the government misrepresented his team's key finding. Misstating the results of an expensive scientific investigation is unacceptable and I think that's what's happened."
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    abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/mur
    #petroglyphs #Murujuga ##harm #degradation #RockArt #IndigenousPeoples #air #IndustrialPollution #pollution #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #Burrup #science #ScientificReview #governance #culture #values

  6. 4,000-year-old cemeteries and rock art reveal forgotten ritual landscape of Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula

    Archaeologists working in Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula have uncovered a lush and previously underappreciated prehistoric landscape filled with ancient cemeteries, rock art, and standing stones that together present a complex picture of ritual life in the area between 3000 and 500 BCE...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/for

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #rockart #ancientrituals

  7. Ancestral Pueblo people carved rooms, known as cavates, into the tuff cliffs of the Pajarito Plateau. Bandelier National Monument and Puye Cliff Dwellings are known for them, but they can be seen throughout the Jemez. I saw these next to the road between Bandelier and White Rock.

    #roadtrip #NativeAmerican #history #heritage #tradition #culture #daytrip #virtualtravel #NewMexico #historygeek #leavenotrace #earthshotz #rockart #petroglyphs #indigenous #archaeology #anthropology #Jemez #Puebloan

  8. A link to the full text of 'Spirits and Stones: Shamanism and Rock Art in Central Asia and Siberia'. It includes my essay, 'Shamans, lamas and the social effectiveness of rock art' which juxtaposes the practice of Buryat shamanism with the 'artistic materialism' of Asger Jorn. The book explores the 'wilderness of connections' between shamanic practitioners, the spirit world and the world of rock art imagery.
    academia.edu/282451/Spirits_an #AsgerJorn #Buryats #shamanism #shamans #CentralAsia #RockArt