#rockart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rockart, aggregated by home.social.
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The Guardian: Trump’s border wall construction threatens rock art as old as the pyramids: ‘The ancestors are still here’. “The impending construction also threatens to mar or destroy an untold number of these millennia-old rock art murals that stand in the coming wall’s path. The slated construction includes 165 miles (266km) of four-to-six-foot-tall vehicle barriers and patrol roads […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/24/trumps-border-wall-construction-threatens-rock-art-as-old-as-the-pyramids-the-ancestors-are-still-here-the-guardian/ -
Remembering Keith John Moon , who was born on this day 23rd August 1946,
#KeithMoon #photooftheday #RockArt
📸 Tom Wright -
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.
-- e. e. cummings⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #eecummings #Identity #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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Remembering John Lee Hooker who was born today 22nd August 1917
"The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning."
#photooftheday #RockArt #Blues
📸 Paul Natkin
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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
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #TheFuture #Wisdom
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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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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I'm always fascinated by the line "we don't want to become minorities in our own country". Why not? Are they treated badly or something?
-- Jim Rossignol (@jimrossignol)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JimRossignol #Discrimination #Hypocrisy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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Researchers found that the 2,000-year-old Huashan rock art in Guangxi, China stayed bonded to cliff faces through monsoons and typhoons because its makers mixed blood into the lime mortar, possibly blood tied to childbirth. #Archaeology #RockArt #China https://www.anthropology.net/p/blood-lime-and-the-chemistry-of-memory
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
-- Arthur Rubinstein⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ArthurRubinstein #Life #Love
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
-- Walter Lippmann⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterLippmann #Democracy
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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The coevolution of language and art in prehistoric cave sites [pdf 14pp] #RockArt #ParietalArt #archaeoacoustics http://evolang.org/2026/proceedings/papers/evolang16_paper_111.pdf
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It is a myth not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and a symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IrwinEdman #Politics
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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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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It is one of the ironies of our time that, while concentrating on the defense of our country against enemies from without, we should be so heedless of those who would destroy it from within.
-- Rachel Carson (1953)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RachelCarson #Conservation #Nature
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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Happy birthday to James Hetfield, born 3rd August 1963
#photooftheday #RockArt #Metallica #JamesHetfield
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
📷 Pete Cronin
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A corporation is not a person until Texas executes one!
-- Jim Hightower (Comment on Citizens United Supreme Court Case)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JimHightower #CivilRights #Humor #Personhood
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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Researchers found evidence that ancient Chinese artists mixed blood into pigments, creating remarkably durable rock art that has survived more than two millennia.
#China #RockArt #Archaeology #AncientHistory #Mystery #Science
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/huashan-rock-art-00103032 -
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkTwain #Ambition #Greatness
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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@elaterite
Some very special rock art in the swell.
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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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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:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/vredefort-crater-0012142 -
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
-- Mark Victor Hansen⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarkVictorHansen #Challenges #Doing #GettingStarted #Obstacles #Perfection
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/north-west-shelf-gas-project-woodside-wa-federal-court-challenge
Albanese government’s approval of North West Shelf gas extension being challenged by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian Rock Art. #auslaw #auspol #climate #IndigenousIP #rockart -
Dating Petroglyphs Using Measurements of Manganese Accumulation in Rock Varnish [pdf 15pp] #RockArt #petroglyphs https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/b932244972f51020d9515071205907c2/download_pub