#rockart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rockart, aggregated by home.social.
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set."
Remembering Keith Moon , who died today 7th September 1978
#photooftheday #RockArt #TheWho #photography #music
📸 Barrie Wentzell
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set."
Remembering Keith Moon , who died today 7th September 1978
#photooftheday #RockArt #TheWho #photography #music
📸 Barrie Wentzell
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set."
Remembering Keith Moon , who died today 7th September 1978
#photooftheday #RockArt #TheWho #photography #music
📸 Barrie Wentzell
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set."
Remembering Keith Moon , who died today 7th September 1978
#photooftheday #RockArt #TheWho #photography #music
📸 Barrie Wentzell
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"I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set."
Remembering Keith Moon , who died today 7th September 1978
#photooftheday #RockArt #TheWho #photography #music
📸 Barrie Wentzell
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From the travel journal:
An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark). -
From the travel journal:
An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark). -
From the travel journal:
An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark). -
From the travel journal:
An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark). -
From the travel journal:
An #archaeology of the 20th century; #bunkers and #rockart (Atlantic Wall #bunkers #Denmark). -
‘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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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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#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 -
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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Scientists Recover Ancient Human DNA from Cave Walls
For the first time, researchers have extracted ancient human DNA directly from the walls of a cave. Although…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #Altamira #AU #Australia #Cave #caveart #Cavepainting #CovaronCave #dna #EscouralCave #Figurativepainting #Homo #Homoneanderthalensis #Homosapiens #human #Iberia #Iberianpeninsula #MaltraviesoCave #Neanderthal #PAINTING #paintings #Pigment #Portugal #rockart #Spain
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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 #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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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!
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Megalithic Societies : Old Questions, New Narratives [pdf 301pp] #megalithic #menhirs #dolmens #RockArt https://www.academia.edu/166926171/Announcement_of_up_and_coming_volume_Megalithic_Societies
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Animals and Ancient Religion: What Can Prehistoric Art Tell Us? [xml, pdf 22pp] #RockArt #animism #shamanism #totemism https://www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/20333/
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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 #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah