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Rock Art: 10 places to see it in the United States

by ancientartarch|March 2, 2025March 4, 2025|Barrier Canyon Style, cave art, Fremont, geoglyph, Great Basin, Nevada, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming

10 places you can appreciate rock art across the United States. The first 20,000 years of American history are written on the landscape.

Rock Art: What are Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs?

by ancientartarch|November 19, 2024March 2, 2025|age, California, cave art, Chauvet, Emery County, France, geoglyph, Native American, North America, Painting, Paleolithic, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Uncategorized, Utah

Rock Art: Pictographs, Petroglyphs, and Geoglyphs. Three techniques are used by the world's first artists. What do those terms mean and what does the art look like?

Jackson Hole Talk September 4th

by ancientartarch|August 20, 2024November 19, 2024|news, Wyoming

Join us Sept 4th, 2024 5:30 PM MDT Altamira Fine Arts Gallery in Jackson WY

Paleolithic paintings in Cresswell Craigs, UK

by ancientartarch|June 28, 2024June 28, 2024|Europe, Paleolithic

https://youtu.be/6njVt5X4WWo Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire is one of the most important Upper Paleolithic sites in the British Isles and has been the focus for archaeologists for over 170 years. In 2021, Research Fellow, Dr George Nash at the University of Liverpool explored the walls and ceilings of several caves within the Gorge, including Church Hole Cave and Robin Hood’s Cave. The results of this survey revealed several panels in Church Hole Cave that showed potential evidence of painted surfaces using a locally sourced red pigment. Read about his findings at the Bradshaw Foundation website (here).

Storied Rock Interview

by ancientartarch|May 31, 2024May 31, 2024|Native American, news, North America, Rock Art

Our founder Stephen Alvarez was interviewed on public radio about producing the Storied Rock article in National Geographic Magazine and the work of the Ancient Art Archive. Listen to the interview here. Storied Rock is live on National Geographic's website (here subscription required). You can see the images on Alvarez's website by going to America's Murals.

Ancient Art Archive Wikipedia

by ancientartarch|April 3, 2024April 3, 2024|Uncategorized

The Archive showed up on Wikipedia this week (here)! Wikipedia is the crowd sourced encyclopedia, its often the first place people go for information on any subject. We are thrilled to be added.

Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon, Utah USA

Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art

by ancientartarch|December 21, 2023October 28, 2024|Barrier Canyon Style, North America, petroglyph, pictograph, Rock Art, Rock Art Styles, Uncategorized, Utah

The Barrier Canyon Style (BCS) represents an intriguing facet of prehistoric rock art, primarily concentrated in Utah, notably flourishing within the San Rafael Swell and Canyonlands National Park regions

Horse Nation in Science

by ancientartarch|November 20, 2023January 12, 2024|Native American, North America

New study of horses in North America

Education Activity in Ada, OK

by ancientartarch|April 3, 2023May 24, 2023|Mississippian, news

It’s a wonderful opportunity to share this collective history with kids who are descendants of the Mississippian tribes,” Mater said. “But to non-native kids as well. This is part of American history. Hopefully this kind of sparks their imaginations. It gets people kind of asking larger questions, and appreciating the cultural history and legacy that we come from

Over 100 neolithic petroglyphs found in a Catalonian Cave

by ancientartarch|March 20, 2023March 20, 2023|Europe, Spain

Over 100 engravings have been identified on an 8 meter long panel in a cave in Tarragona. The images are exceptional both for their uniqueness and their state of preservation.

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